Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Work has just been started on grading a parking space for 150 cars south of the Business School buildings, in addition to the accomodations for 175 cars at present in use. Flood lights will be provided to aid in night parking, and watchmen will patrol the parking space day and night...
...story of the Harvard-Yale football series is the tale of the ebb and flood of two great tides of victory, broken only by occasional pauses. From 1876 to 1908, Yale was riding on the crest of the wave of triumph, sweeping all Harvard elevens before her with relentless power. In 1908 the tide turned, and although the Crimson victory in that year was followed by a Yale win in 1909, Harvard was launched on her triumphant march under the headship of Percy D. Haughton '90, the coach who led the Crimson forces out of the football doldrums...
...original suggestion for the game, which was to be staged as a benefit for the New England flood victims, came not from official Dartmouth, as was supposed, but from W. S. O'Gorman of Manchester, N. H., who wrote to H. R. Beneagh. Director of Athletics at Hanover. W. J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics at the University, and Lon Little, Georgetown coach, proposing this novel form of flood relief. The latter accepted the invitation, but Mr. Bingham and Mr. Heneagh were obliged to decline for the respective reasons that the Stadium is available only for undergraduate activities and that...
...Flood Control. The press and residents of the Mississippi flood area expressed sympathy but could not refrain from hoping that New England, freshly conscious of what too much water can do, would help expedite Federal flood control legislation...
...next morning, under a bright sun and a wind still swift, the storm's damage was revealed. Sweeping westward through England, it had demolished houses in Lancashire; in Ireland cables had been broken, trees torn up, the grandstand at the Tramore racetrack shattered; there had been a flood at Limerick. Over the west coast airplanes hunted for signs of wreckage or the bodies of the 50 fishermen of Killala, Cleggan Bay, Inishkea. The sea, as if offering an ironic apology, rolled up eight corpses on the sand. To the men who had drowned, Father Quinn granted conditional absolution...