They utterly ignore the cause of the floods and therefore refuse to consider any system of source stream control or of controlled outlets, spillways, and wasteways.
"Our National Defense: The Patriotism of Peace"
George Hebard Maxwell
Dams against the color races, with spillways of course for students, merchants, and travellers, will presently enclose the white man's world.
"The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy"
Theodore Lothrop Stoddard
The spillways of this dam ought to be made as big as possible, to let the freshet pass through.
"The Tale of Brownie Beaver"
Arthur Scott Bailey