Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the Business School expects a 50 percent drop in applications for next year, the prediction was partly based on the school's new $15 application fee, and one official anticipated a flood of late applications. The school has no figures on the draft status of its current students, but no enrollment drop next year is foreseen...
...answer had set off a great debate, which filled the air waves and packed the letters-to-the-editor columns. Herbert Hoover had touched it off with his Gibraltarism speech (TIME, Jan. 1), in which he said that Europe must first build its own "sure dam against the Red flood" before the U.S. gave it any more aid, and argued that Europe was not vital anyway to defending the Gibraltar of the Western Hemisphere. It was not alone the size of the match that 76-year-old Herbert Hoover struck that made the blast so big; it was also...
Industry, strong in its World War II expansion, poured out such a flood of civilian goods that the shelves were restocked in jig time. Panic-buying gradually subsided; prices had had but an imperceptible rise...
...dread to think what will happen when MT. McNiff opens his library this morning. It seems inconceivable, but a flood of volumes, perhaps caused by the end of vacation, has already filled up the entire library with returned books--all six levels of it. Bailing out all those books will be quite a problem; perhaps the solution will be to cut a hole in a bottom of the library. We wish Mr. McNiff well with...
Tanks in Water. Cliff Strike also has a sharp engineer's eye for short cuts. When a flood swept away three oil tanks in Hartford, competing contractors estimated it would take six months and $65,000 to put them back in place again. McGraw & Co. took on the job for $13,000, did it in seven days by aping nature. Strike built a dike around the tanks, refloated them and easily put them back into position...