Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...really just a hull of modern construction, was tested last fall. The tests were made by exploding bombs, simulating the largest bombs dropped by airplanes and the largest submarine torpedoes, in the water around her, to determine the resistance of her hull to external explosions. The result was to flood some of her "outboard explosion spaces" and "double bottom spaces"; her inner hull was not ruptured and the few leaks that were started could easily have been plugged up, or the water pumped out. At no time did she list more than five degrees. No material damage was done...
...Flood...
...various intimate scenes and the incredible flood of epithets aroused the critics' and the World's protest. They were deliberate panderings to the shoddy instincts of the masses. Unlike the similar display of Mr. Belasco (Ladies of the Evening), the scenes were never entertaining...
...which includes Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, Siegfried, Gotterdammerung. Between the date of interruption and the date of this revival, a number of Wagner operas have been presented at the Metropolitan. Die Walkure was revived with eclat in 1921, Siegfried in 1924. Yet these performances have been isolated in the flood of Italian melody: Lucia, Aida, Tosca, Rigoletto. Now among such pretty pieces comes Wagner like a Titan, mightily marching...
...acting up to the tradition of lamenting the institution of divisional examinations for Seniors. The early siege of Spring will partly excise this early lament. But you may rest assured that we are merely starting the ball (or "bawl") rolling, and that from now on there will be a flood of such Senior sonneteering...