Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Palmer's initial score came in the first period as the result of a short pass from Reid in front of the goal while at the beginning of the second session the same man essayed a long shot from the left wing which eluded Flood in the net. Shortly after that, Spalding snapped the puck out of a melee in front of the goal for the visitors' first score...
...with which to raise his super structure. He very seldom gets far enough even to consider adding a roof. The natural question arises: what is the good of a house founded upon a rock, if there is no thatch of sufficient thickness to keep out the rains and the flood of contemporary fiction...
...tablet has been found at Nippur unmistakably antedating the Hebrew epic by ten centuries, and giving in surprisingly similar detail, even to names, the creation and fail of man. Supplemented by other records, a complete Sumerian legend can be constructed, which carries the history of Babylonia up to a flood strangely like that which bore Noah on his famous voyage. Thenceforward, the tale is different, and, as the critics would have said, the Hebrew plagiarism ceases...
...imaginations suggest. The Hebrew Adam tasted forbidden fruit to gain knowledge; the Sumerian Adapa did likewise; the temptation in each case involved a woman; both were driven out of their paradises in the Euphrates Valley to toil in unproductive fields; finally the descendants of both were chastened by a flood which wiped out all but the worthy. In fine, it might seem almost reasonable to think the later accounts not an imitation, but a fresh version drawn from the identical events...
Scholastic use of such a test would certainly be barred, and yet the answers to it may throw a flood of light upon the brain and sense of the person under examination. --The Boston Transcript