Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Said the President, addressing a letter to the people on behalf of the Red Cross: "The American Red Cross has been tested in war and the aftermath of war; in fire, flood and famine and in the emergencies of peace...
Thus fades the student magnificent; but only to change his abode. Stepping with seven league boots, the roistering scholar has set up a tidy little bohemian inferno of his own in the sacred precincts of Back Bay. The Quartier Latin in the flood days of vin rouge never dreamed of such boisterous revelry, nor of such cheerful flouting of conventionality as nightly reigns upon the banks of the Charles; if one may believe what he reads. But Fate is cruel, and already the prying eye of the reformer is looking askance at these nocturnal festivities. The end cannot...
...Philip Keene '25, B. M. Rice '25; shortstops, Willard Howard '27, C. S. Gross '27, J. B. Dacey '26; third basemen, H. E. Slayton Jr. '26, C. O. Erickson '27, Butler Cox 27; outfielders, C. L. Todd Jr. '26, M. F. Amsden '25, G. W. Burgess '25, R. T. Flood '27, J. B. Durant...
...short month ago the United States celebrated a National Defense Day with great show of mock-mobilization, much waving of flags, and a flood of rhetorical exhoration by generals and others who should have known better. This week, in Berlin-military leaders of the two great warrior-countries of Europe, whose quarrels have been the great obstacle to peace for three hundred years, are leading a world peace congress in the denunciation of war. General Verraux of France and General Shoenaich of Germany attack their own trade with true military straightforwardness...
...vast quantities of fresh sea water from the Gulf of Finland, submerged three-quarters of the city. Ten lives were lost. Then the estuary spued back the water; life in the city became normal, but damage was done to the extent of millions of dollars. A cyclone caused the flood...