Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...length they held back an enormous crowd gathered to witness the opening of the Hungarian Parliament. Excitement ran high, for it was known that Premier Count Bethlen would present to the Deputies the Government's position with respect to the "national scandal," the recently discovered plot to flood France with counterfeited -in- Hungary 1,000-franc notes (TIME, Jan. 18). Premier Bethlen slipped into the Parliament building by a side entrance. For two hours he held last minute conferences with the leaders of the Opposition in the lobbies -cajoled, threatened, begged. It became obvious to the merest dullard that...
...Back in '49 there were a good many people going out to the gold fields by the water route around the Horn. Herein you follow the travels of one of them, impersonated by Anna Q. Nilsson. In California she encounters Lionel Barrymore, playing a gambler. Later there is a flood...
Germany. Water filtering down into the earth from the flooded Rhine Valley slightly weakened the geological substratum of the Rhineland, and caused severe earth tremors, which terrified the already wretched flood refugees. Disastrous landslides took place in the Hartz Mountains. Reserve icebreakers were despatched from Hamburg and Bremen to keep open the badly frozen up shipping routes in the northern Baltic...
Belgium and Holland. The Pope despatched 20,000 florins ($8,000) to aid the flood rescue work in Holland, and despatched a like sum for the same purpose to Belgium...
...which wore down their younger opponents. The phenomenal work of Rideout, the Andover cage guardian, was largely responsible for the low score. He allowed only two goals, one of which came in each of the first two periods, and stopped numerous hard drives which appeared to be sure tallies. Flood, the Crimson goal, also gave a brilliant exhibition of net tending, which kept the cage safe throughout the game...