Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fatty Randolph (International) kept cranking when a flood in Washington had torn from the bank an ice-floe on which he was standing. Neither his camera nor his body were ever found...
Noah stroked his patriarchal beard thoughtfully: "Woodrow, if you were to live on earth again and there was another big flood what five democrats would you take into...
...together we may be able to do something to relieve our country of the stigma which is undoubtedly on it at the present time because of the outpouring of so much filthy literature. Gentlemen and ladies,† I appeal to our better selves! Let us cooperate to stop the flood of indecency which is being launched upon the world." Upon Alfred Emanuel Smith was conferred last Sunday the University of Notre Dame's Laetare medal, highest U. S. distinction available for lay Catholics. Said the Rev. Charles L. O'Donnell, of Notre Dame: "The long and honorable public...
...recent significant innovation among the flood of new proposals by President Hoover is his plan, presumably promoted by "Good Will," to reorganize the Foreign Service. Although "Good Will" may be merely another term for attracting business, efficiency and practically are the generally accepted motives for the programme. As a result of observations made on his South American trip, Hoover has concluded that diplomatic primacy should be centered in Latin America rather than in Europe; for there, legations seem to be diminishing in their demands for unusually gifted diplomats, since policies and ententes already are firmly established...
...education in economics is essential to alleviate the ignorance of the interrelation of sovereignty, property, power, and conflict which Mr. Hawtrey and Norman Angell suggest as basic causes of war. A general understanding of economics appears to be the simplest, sanest, and most significant educational advocacy among the recent flood of innovations and proposed experiments. With it will come the ideal of having the world think of economic ends in terms, not of individual power, but of international welfare...