Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That immigration from Canada, Mexico, Central and South America should be placed under quota restrictions such as now apply to immigration from the rest of the world. At the present time, we have placed no immigration restrictions on our colleagues of the Western Hemisphere. As a result, a flood of immigration pours in over northern and southern borders. With quotas it is hoped to cut down the legal as well as the illegal inflow...
...Flood control on the Mississippi and Colorado Rivers; construction of navigable waterways from the Great Lakes to the Gulf; agreement with Canada on the St. Lawrence waterway; development of the Mississippi Basin; Federal purchase of the Cape Cod Canal...
...Gross '27 l.w., Willard Howard '27 r.d., L. O. Pratt '26 l.d., Thayer Cumings '26 g. Team Z consisted of Elisha Canning '26 r.w., J. B. Durant '27 c., Henry Parish '26 l.w., W. P. Ellison '27 r.d., C. L. Wylde '27 l.d., and R. T. Flood '27 and J. J. Mapes '25 goals...
...goal guards who reported were letter men, Thayer Cumings '26, and J. L. Newell '26, who alternated last year at this position. The other eight, with the exception of R. T. Flood '27, who played goal on the 1927 team, have not had much experience in college...
...State Department of Public Works, in anticipation of the flood of motor traffic to the Yale game Saturday, has announced that there are two equally good motor routes to New Haven this year, both of which go through Worcester. Autoists are advised not to go via Providence as the traffic is much heavier on this route and the roads are much worse...