Word: flood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which argues that only a controlled press like itself can really be free, came another blast at the U.S. press. The magazine New Times (née War and the Working Classes) wanted to convince its readers that the U.S. newsmen who are demanding entry into Eastern Europe will "flood the pages of their papers with fabricated sensations...
...Rochester (N.Y.) Society of Free Thinkers. (Last spring he got religious training abolished in three upstate New York towns.) Mr. Cromwell would only "affirm" to tell the truth, instead of swearing by God. Then he testified to his beliefs that the story of Adam and Eve is fictitious, the Flood a scientific impossibility and the Resurrection a physical impossibility. He declared: "I am proud to say that I am [an atheist...
Almost lost in the flood of last week's news was the announcement that Alvin Harvey Hansen, Harvard's New Dealish, free-wheeling Lucius N. Littauer professor of political economy, will no longer act as consultant to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System...
...chronology of the War in the Pacific, Japan's peak in territorial gains came eight months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941. But even before the attack had reached flood tide, the counterattack had begun...
Cheering, laughing, crying people flowed through the streets in a human flood. Searchlights danced across the sky. Firecrackers cracked and sputtered victory...