Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Morris Gest, harassed by a flood of details requiring his personal attention, tired and drawn after nearly three days of nerve racking work in preparing the ground for his greatest production which opens in the Boston Opera House next week, stopped giving orders and making decisions long enough, to touch briefly on the history and future of the "Miracle," his own work, and upon his ideas of college students...
...desperate combat for the city of London the army of Wessex last week locked in a death grapple with the army of Mercia. Rain fell and fell until even Noah's contemporaries would have been convinced that there was going to be a flood. And finally after everyone had been soaked to the bone, the umpires decided that the sham battle had saved London for Mercia...
...Francisco. Because trouble is remembered longer than pleasure, men make calendars of their catastrophies. In Tokyo they say "since the Earthquake," in Johnstown "since the Flood," in San Francisco "since the Fire. . ." Marcel Journet, famed French basso, has sung in most of the capitals of the world and avoided most of the world's disasters, but he has not sung in Tokyo since the Quake, he has not sung in Johnstown since the Flood, nor, until last week, had he sung in San Francisco since the Fire. His great voice boomed there last week; other famed singers tuned their...
...mere subordinate sec-who has become a U. S. citizen, in 21 years has increased the resources of the Army in the U. S. from $1,500,000 to $32,000,000. Three years ago her brother removed her from her command, but there was such a flood of protest that she was reinstated for three years...
...however, it is the student who is important, college executives must flood some way to free themselves from the thralldom to their faculties, by insisting that new appointments, and promotions as well shall depend primarily upon ability to impart knowledge and interest to young people. This and not stiffer entrance requirements, is the way to increase the number of graduates who will throughout their lives do credit to their Alma Mater...