Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...especially disconcerting when a new flood of light is thrown upon the mystories of University administration--not from within, to be sure--but from some obscure outpost of civilization, such as Mansfield, Ohio. The Mansfield High School paper. The Hyphonerian, full of the praiseworthy ambition to acquaint its students with the best that is known and thought in the world, conceived the idea of publishing short biographical and descriptive notes upon the leading universities, "especially in Ohio". Harvard is accorded a prominent place. Among details more or less known to Harvard men, though new to young Ohionese, the following sentences...
...held after the mid-year examinations. L. H. Duggan is Chairman and Isadore Zarakov, Sub-Chairman of this body. The members of the committee are; Dwight Barnum of Boston; Joseph Choate Bickford of Pelham, N. Y.; James Calvin Cooley 2nd of Milton; John Brooke Durant of Cambridge; Richard Thomas Flood of Brookline; Geoffrey McNair Gates of Elyria, O., Lewis Henderson Gordon of Flushing, N. Y.; Willard Howard of West Roxbury; Henry Bigelow Jackson of Milton; Sidney Stanley Rudman of Roxbury; Oliver Stevens Sughrue of Boston; Christian Henry Weymer of Syracuse, N. Y., and John Fonda Ward Whitbeck of Bronxville...
...contributions of the different nations to the body of knowledge, are the most significant. Educated Indians are not able to obtain the literature that is so common-place in the United States. The newspapers, magazines, and books that are continuously pouring forth to the rising generation of America, the flood of information, knowledge, and ideals, are not available to the youth of India, primarily because they are unable to furnish material price for these sources of enlightenment...
Copey's reading makes the weary student realize, in spite of lost classes and cuts, that the holiday is really approaching. There could be no surer presage of festivity than Copey's wholly charming and unstudied fun, for everywhere he arouses a flood of friendly merriment and a feeling of deep, if unspoken love...
...Bohlen, R. B. Burnett, Blake Cabot, C. D. Coady, L. F. Daley, W. P. Ellison, R. T. Flood, C. B. Gross, Nathaniel Hamlen, R. S. Scott, Lloyd Vander Horst, C. I. Wylde, Isadore Zarakov, G. P. Sturgis, manager, Howard Slade assistant manager...