Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...serves admirably to shut out the less aquatic visitors, it is distressing that the Mayflower descendants should have to wade ashore. Fortunately the basement affords a dry route to the dining Hall, but the janitor Charon might find some other means of getting the students dry shod across the flood...
Passed bills for flood control surveys on the Waccamaw (N. C. & S. C.) and the French Broad (X. C.) Rivers...
...national semi-official organization the Red Cross supplies human relief in the wake of any disaster of nature such as fire, flood, cyclone or earthquake. Because a drought is a natural disaster, it was ready to relieve its victims. But because overproduction was a man-made calamity and not an Act of God, it was not willing to help the city jobless out of an economic predicament no less severe than that of drought sufferers...
...which, reversing the role he played in his affair with Alexander Hamilton, he fires into the air. He postures elegantly, makes desperately winning speeches, executes paltry and artful stratagems, yet remains dull - a character falling halfway between life and fantasy. In spite and perhaps because of the glittering flood of language poured over it, Colonel Satan is too far from the idiom of the modern theatre to be satisfying entertainment...
...strikers & friends to lusty cheering by suggesting that they return to work in the mills and arbitrate their differences with the company afterwards. He even went so far as to suggest that either Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd or Virginia's onetime Governor Harry Flood Byrd act as public arbitrator. His prime stipulation for peace: the workers' right to remain mem bers of the A. F. of L.'s textile union...