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Word: flooding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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First photographic news from Spain was of wholesale faking. To keep the world's tabloid editors supplied with gore and excitement, one English agency was supposed to have complete sets of both armies' uniforms, ready to re-enact any battle. Then came the flood of propaganda horror pictures, real but limited photographically. The Spanish war's first honest camera-made reputation belongs to Hungarian Robert Capa (LIFE, Jan. 24). Last week 200 of his photographs, in thoroughly first-rate reproductions, made a glass-clear panorama at Manhattan's New School for Social Research. Among them were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Capa's Camera | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...Havilland, fiery -Planter Claude Rains and a pack of farmers. The ensuing battle is long, bloody, rough on romance. But the courts finally come through with a restraining order, which the farmers execute by blasting a dam, washing out the mining crowd in one great, glistening, gold-tinted Technicolor flood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 21, 1938 | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...watch. Script writers got right to work on a landslide sequence to be added to the film. But the hill refused to budge for the cameramen. Last week Nature was more cooperative. As the Warner Bros, prepared to present their film simultaneously in 200 theatres throughout the U. S., flood waters swept out over the Sacramento Valley, inundated farm lands just as the film's flood does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 21, 1938 | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...transferred from the War Department to TVA in 1933); to restrict de-velopment of four dams now under construction and a fifth authorized but not yet begun; to prevent TVA from getting Congressional funds for four more dams. TVA attorneys maintained that the dams were designed primarily for flood-control, improvement of navigation, and national defense. The company attorneys maintained that they were designed primarily to generate and sell electric power and to drive their private competitors out of the utility business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER: TV A Clear | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

...book is not, however, the much abused type of literary reminiscences which flood the bookstores with new versions every week. His pattern characterization which persist throughout increase its merit. He does not sit in an armchair with his won bibliography in front of him, going over each title as it appears, and racking his brains for an anecdote or some hitherto undisclosed fact to tell of it. Instead he throws a pack over his shoulder and starts out on a hike from London to Devon-shire, treading again over the same highways he had traveled along in his Cambridge days...

Author: By J. G. B. jr., | Title: The Bookshelf | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

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