Glen Canyon Dam

Glen Canyon Dam

noun
See under Powell, Lake.
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Adam Clayton, Jr., 1908–72, U.S. clergyman, politician, and civil-rights leader: congressman 1945–67, 1969–71.
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Anthony, 1905–2000, English author.
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Cecil Frank, 1903–69, English physicist: Nobel prize 1950.
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Lewis Franklin, Jr., 1907–1998, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1972–87.
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Lake, an artificial reservoir on the border of SE Utah and NE Arizona, on the Colorado River, formed by the construction of a dam (Glen Canyon Dam) (completed 1964). 186 miles (300 km) long.
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glen canyon dam

noun
a large dam built in 1964 on the Colorado River in Arizona 
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