Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...experiments and a vast multitude of others have so advanced our knowledge of cancer that we may hope for the full solution of the problem in the not distant future, says Dr. Smith. He pleads for financial support for responsible and detailed cancer research, rather than prizes attracting a flood of " cancer cures...
...very mention of secret practice curtailment brings upon its author a flood of resentment and vituperation. In nine cases out of ten this abuse comes from inability to differentiate between curtailment and elimination. It is an established fact that some secret practice is a necessity. Success in important games is well-nigh impossible without an element of surprise. Coach Roper at Princeton has, however, decided to allow everyone to watch the team in the remainder of this season's daily workouts. Perhaps a few new plays may be rehearsed on the sly, but in the main practice will be open...
Someone has been trying to hoax Manhattan, and, judging from the furious flood of contributions to the "World", he has succeeded admirably. A man who styles himself "A. K. Fill more, President of the League for the Uplift of Moral Virtue and the Suppression of Unwarranted Pleasure" managed to get that paper to print a letter advocating coffee-prohibition. "Brain-numbing and soui-destroying brew" he terms this fluid, and ends that inasmuch as the Bible does not state that coffee drinking is not a sin it "must be classed with other licentious habits". If Mark Twain were alive today...
...Banks of the Wabash. One of those general store pictures with all the veteran cinema commodities cluttering the counter. Cranberry Corners, moonlight on the river, stage rubes, a fire, a flood, faithful love are most prominent. The flood and the faithful love of the benign Mary Carr are the only bits worth while...
...Flood losses for Joseph Pennell...