Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With very few exceptions, Americans cannot accurately lay claim to unmixed descent, particularly many born since the great flood of immigration during the latter iSoos. But the product of such dilutions of the earlier bloodstreams of Northern Europe surely cannot all have concentrated above the Mason-Dixon Line, and must have gravitated down as well as out and upward. On the other hand, miscegenation in the South was no mere rumor. The masters of the great plantations and farms, and their menfolk generally were not insusceptible to the charms of the better-favored females in the slave quarters. Were these...
...Virginia's Senator Harry Flood Byrd...
...down and confesses the story of her past. Like Mary Magdalene, Lucasta has a noble father, but has lived a loose, selfish life which she now regrets. The fact that for much of this scene Lucasta is seated at Colby's feet and that her confession climaxes in a flood of tears parallels the act of penitential love performed by Mary Magdalene when she washed Christ's feet. And just as the seven demons which possessed Mary Magdalene are expelled when she talks to Christ, so Lucasta at the end of the second act is released (although she does...
...educational plant is in financial trouble. An estimated 50% of the private colleges operate in the red. At present, a large amount of corporate help covers just tuition, about half the cost of putting a student through school. Educators are also concerned about the sporadic nature of donations-a flood in high-profit years, a trickle in bad. Furthermore, too many contributions are donated for specific scientific projects which tend to unbalance the college as a whole by building up one department at the expense of the others. Universities need unrestricted funds...
...Disabled American Veterans collected $21,480,000 over a period of three years with a series of splashy contests and a campaign to flood the mails with unsolicited trinkets. Out of this sum, the expenses of the fund-raisers amounted to $14,529,000, "administrative costs" ate up another $2,400,000, and $3,837,000 more went for D.A.V. lobbying. Not a cent went for the direct aid of a needy veteran. The D.A.V. does maintain 1,800 local chapters, which help veterans, for example, with their claims against the Government...