Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...offer of a Munich publisher to print the best of recent American literature "for Continental consumption" seems to suggest a way in which the cultivated classes of Europe might be pressed into service as an impartial jury on American literature. The annual flood of spring literature might first be directed to European maris for critical expurgation. What would sheek the American might not necessarily be considered unusual by the European: but if European progressiveness in this respect were as slavishly aped as some other European characteristics, such medieval measures as the Rabenold Bill would find little support...
...Amid the flood of annual corporate statements for 1923, here and there reports of industry and trade during 1924 are beginning to appear. In general they show a tendency toward increased sales competition and diminishing margin of profit that were predicted by some students of business at the beginning of the year...
HELL-BENT PER HEAVEN-A modern realistic version of Tartuffe, with a southern religious fanatic working evil in the name of good, assisted by a cinema-esque flood...
Professor A. G. McAdie '85 emphasized the importance and possibilities of rain. The annual rainfall in Cambridge is forty inches. In comparing this with Noah's flood, he said, we should allow these forty inches to come all in one day and then multiply by one hundred. The resulting flood would cover Memorial Hall...
Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, Democratic irreconcilable, whose boom is being fostered by the Hearst press, lifted his voice at P'eoria, Ill., exclaiming: "On the heels of the War . . . there was a flood of resignations by every sort of Government employee, from department clerks to Cabinet officers...