Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Will it, like so many other industries, develop its vested interests and its propaganda? Will junk barons buy up newspapers to preach the cause of international peace? Will second-hand dynamo lobbies try to put over disarmament jokers on Parliaments and Congresses? Will venal correspondents and news agencies flood the press of the world with fakes about peace banquets in Tokio, international meetings in London, interracial resolutions of friendship in Rome, all provocative of unity among the nations and designed to build up the scraping industry? More power to them! -New York Evening Post...
...this goes to press, half of the College is already well on the way to Princeton. By boat, by train, by motor, the Crimson flood is descending on the Tiger to unite this afternoon in one tremendous wave which is to overwhelm the supporters of the Black and Orange. Greatly will the team be aided by this section of Harvard which will be with them in the Palmer Stadium. But besides all the cheering thousands in New Jersey, there will be still others taking no less a share in the great struggle...
Harvard, on account of its high entrance requirements, was hardly touched by the first rush of the flood of students two years ago. In that year it had a comparatively small incoming class of 537. since then, however, the schools have recovered; and now Harvard is feeling the effect of the rush to the colleges which swamped so many of the state universities and the colleges with lower requirements last year and the year before...
...University of Chicago the finest of the kind in the United States." For a long time the University of Pennsylvania has held that place, its claims founded upon its discoveries in Babylonia and its possession of the Nippur tablets with their accounts of the creation of man and the flood. Dr. Breasted is well known among scholars, and he has the hustling qualities of a business man as well. He was the first American to traverse the Arab state and he encountered real risks in the journey. But he has his reward for chief among the finds he announces...
...winning model gives a striking silhouette of the characters, who are grouped about the summit of a hill from behind which a flood-light effectively blends soft yellow, blue and violet rays, while one bright star shines brightly in the sky. The simplicity of the design well fits the spirit of the play for which it is intended--"The Mystery of the King's Berth," a one-act Christmas mystery by Adair Archer '17, formerly of the Workshop...