Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...While President Roosevelt and most U. S. oilmen were breasting the flood...
...Gray, distinguished botanist, the germ of summer education has spread from Harvard until today there are over 100,000 students in 356 colleges in the United States under instruction. Courses at Cambridge in biology, chemistry, and geology followed quickly in those days when Boston was floating on the flood-tide of a renaissance of intellectual interests, and the brilliant foreign professor Louis Agassiz intoxicated the sages of Concord with natural history. The gradual enlargement of these courses into a regular Summer School of Arts and Sciences and its subsequent growth was but the work of time...
...foot higher than any dikes which existed two years ago, but still four feet below the tops of the 7,000 miles of new dikes built last year by hundreds of thousands of Chinese coolies sweating under the guidance of Sir John Hope Simpson. Director General of Flood Relief. Sir John, when he visited the U. S. two months ago, told proudly how the 1,400,000 Chinese which the Chinese Government placed at his disposal piled up and packed down with heavy wooden tamps wielded by six men enough dirt to "put a dike around the earth...
...town dwellers remembered that as recently as 1931 the Hooding Yangtze chased 10,000,000 Chinese from their homes and killed 140,000 by drowning alone-not to mention the ensuing famine: the greatest disaster of modern times. This year, should both Dragon Rivers rampage at once, they would flood "China's Granary," fruitful valleys peopled by 100,000,000 Chinese...
...educated out of her world. An old mother slowly learns that her new-fangled son begrudges her a place in his home. A poor farmer, caught in a wave of revolution, finds that his share of the mystical millennium is small. The father of a family marooned by a flood, starving to death, remembers that girls are worth less than boys...