Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Germany. At Cologne the Rhine reached the highest flood mark in a century, 30 feet 4 inches above normal, and ferries always kept in reserve were totally unable to cope with the utter breakdown of transportation. The onetime U. S. Army of Occupation Headquarters at Coblentz was inundated by 20 feet of water. The statue of Wilhelm der Zweite atop the great Hohenzollern Bridge over the Rhine looked out upon a seemingly limitless dirt-yellow sea, which churned over vast areas of the Rhine valley...
Eclipsed for an hour, he turned to his pen. Steadily there flowed out upon literary France the prodigious flood of his pent up genius: La, Melée Sociale, Le Grand Pan, Le Voile du Bonheur, etc., ad infinitum. His published works have swelled to the equivalent of 35,000 ordinary novel-size pages...
...have differed in many matters, but if they were all living they would unite in their opposition, to this bill. . . . And now may I mention the names of some other leaders on this side? You will recognize them as I mention them? Clark, DeArmond, James, Kitchin, Padgett, Moon, Flood, who died, all of them, at their posts of duty, fighting, all of them, during their lives, and their deaths seem untimely against the principles for which you gentlemen stand. Oh, other leaders will rise. These puny and little leaders who control now will not control always. I apologize...
Open House. Helen MacKellar, who was the target of so much grimy advertising in The Good Baa Woman fuss, does not seem to be a lucky picker. This latest is one of the vast flood of inferior pieces that have come along lately. It is about a big-business man who forced his wife to flirt with prospective customers and thus assist in the acquisition of great contracts. The play was bad and most of the acting, Miss MacKellar's excepted, was very bad indeed...
Interest in the danger of this corner has been expressed by many undergraduates, in the form of a flood of communications to the CRIMSON Office. One student wrote: "I have been the witness of six or seven accidents there, and have seen the results of many others. I have come to the conclusion that either the traffic department is criminally negligent, or that the danger of this corner has been overlooked in the zeal of the force in playing little jokes on the student body in the way of an eight dollar towing bill for leaving a Ford...