Crossword-Solution: HEMET 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

This was a Jesuit, named Father Hemet; a good and wise old man, whose memory I shall ever hold in veneration.

Granite rubble laid in layers on beds of concrete and filled between with concrete was used in constructing the Hemet Dam in California.

Refusing to be cast into the gloom that would have overcome an average person, he got out of the car and emptied into the gas tank the dregs of gasoline remaining in the hoses attached to each pump, amounts which totalled up to enough gas to get the car to a station where he could order, "Fill 'er up!" On another occasion, after getting a flat tire when we were on an open stretch of highway near Hemet, he changed the tire for his spare, only to discover that there was no air in the spare.

The defence was conducted by the indomitable Hemet el Zegri, who yielded to famine rather than to the arms of the besiegers.

Some of the corporations constructing works for the sale of water built structures of notable size, such, for example, as the Sweet-water and Hemet dams of southern California, the Bear river canal of Utah, and the Arizona canal, taking water from Salt river, Arizona.