Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Born just in time for the flood of early nineteenth century Romanticism, Robert Owen, son of a Welsh saddle-monger, managed in the course of his long life to embrace most of the intellectual innovations which were awakening England from its lethargy of unadulterated nationalism. Agnosticism, spiritualism, free-love, social reform, the cooperative system--at one time or another he tried them all. But in spite of his tendency toward mere theorizing he was practical enough to ameliorate the condition of the factory workers and to offer, in the shape of his New Lanark experiment, his idea of a model...
John Noble Jr. '30 has been appointed Chairman of the Freshman Musical Clubs Committee by R. T. Flood '27, President of the University Instrumental Clubs. He will be assisted by H. T. Holbrook '30, who will direct the Glee Club, and B. D. Hanighen '30, who will have charge of the Instrumental Divisions. Lorenzo Muther '30 will head the Managing Staff...
...Charles Gates Dawes: "Last week, the Vice President and I celebrated our 38th wedding anniversary, received a flood of congratulations. I am usually content to let my politically pugnacious husband occupy the spotlight. He does it so spectacularly. It seems to have become our duty to eat all the dinners that Washington people would like to have the President and Mrs. Coolidge enjoy. As the social buttresses of the Administration, we rarely find time for a quiet evening at home...
...long discussed and often debated question of the uses and abuses of higher education was recently silhouetted in a vast flood-light of truth from the pen of one of 'America's foremost educators, President A. Lawrence Lowell, of Harvard. President Lowell, in his annual report to the directors of Harvard University, considers the various high points of college and high school education unprejudicedly and in a manner which only one with a scope as is his could attempt. Another vast field for intellectual advancement which is very favorably considered by this eminent savant is that of self-education...
...sublimity of saintliness. Therefore, the lines are written in blank verse, a special musical accompaniment is provided to exalt them still higher. Unfortunately, the play, weighted down by heavy-handed craftsmanship and uninspired poetry, ascends to nothing loftier than pompous platitudinousness. Specimen of the verse: "a magnificent flood of mothers' milk." Sam Abramovitch might as logically have been Hans Schneidewind but for the local box office...