Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last achieved dramatic importance. Miss Bernice Goldstein, of Oneonta, N. Y., a member of the scholastic fraternity of Phi Beta Kappa, will be unable to graduate because she cannot learn to swim. Whether the rule is due to love of Greek culture or fear of an-other flood is not known...
...Fifth Pan-American Conference in session at Santiago de Chile has first been deluged with a flood of compliments; and second, flooded by a deluge of proposals...
IOWA: An ice jam eleven miles long is holding back the waters of' the Missouri River at Sioux City. Floods in various quarters are already noted, and people in the lowlands down stream are fleeing to escape the flood which is expected when the jam breaks...
...flood of intelligence tests, which has poured out since the psychological tests in the army, has enabled examiners to reach any decision they wished, extremely positive or extremely negative. The most amusing results have been reached and varying doctrines have been propounded. But according to Professor Langfeld some measurement of intelligence is reaily important, and certainly most alluring. Even our keenest psychologists, equipped with all modern conveniences, have failed to devise a universal test, and the older philosophers went hopelessly astray...
CITY MOVES TO PREVENT FLOOD. --Boston Herald...