Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twilight baseball has moved a few hours further and become midnight baseball. Experiments conducted at the Athletic Field of the General Electric Company at West Lynn, Mass., demonstrate the practicability of baseball played by artificial light. One hundred flood lights were employed and illuminated the field so completely that industrial teams played a full nine-inning game without inconvenience. National League officials were not inclined to take the report seriously. " The intense brilliance of clustered lights against which the players would have to catch flies will eliminate night baseball as a serious consideration among professional teams...
...Nile which flows once more unimpeded-except for British flood control...
...Summer and will not again convene until October 1. Sixteen cases were left undecided and must await action until Fall. They include four on the alien land laws of California and Washington, three on the taxability of the " Massachusetts trusts," North Dakota's claim against Minnesota for flood damages on the Bois de Sioux River, and others. Among the cases to come up in the Autumn is also the Government's appeal for an injunction to prevent the New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange from dealing in sugar futures...
...single week, this development is not illogical. As bearing upon the general situation, probably the most important happening has been the establishment for the third successive month of an import surplus in our foreign trade of May, amounting to $51,000,000. This indicates that the long expected flood of foreign goods in our markets has begun, and that local manufacturers had best proceed with caution under our higher costs of production. The stock market, as if also motivated by a similar instinct for caution, has continued to decline irregularly...
...legend of Linguaglossa that once before, when the image of St. Egidius was held up, the oncoming flood of lava was stommed. Faith has brought to pass many miracles, including the splitting of the Red Sea. Perhaps such a nostrum is still effective. Perhaps by climbing to the house-tops to get as close as possible to the heat and, chanting a hymn to the Sun, our land and our people may be saved from shriveling up like fried bacon. Certainly drastic steps must be taken immediately; and as long as the weather-man has proved himself a mere pawn...