Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They all think that they are trapped in a saloon by a flood. So they wall up the windows, thereby concealing from themselves the true state of affairs outside, and then they make sundry efforts to preserve their morale. Then, it is not so much that the danger passes, as that they find that they never were really in any genuine trouble anyway. What they took for a flood was really only a cloudburst, and the hermetically sealed door and windows only served to make the room stuffy. The result of this blunder is a wave of cynicism decidedly more...
...meeting last night of the retiring Lowell House Committee, next year's officers were selected as follows: Elliot B. Knowlton '38, chairman; Richard Sullivan '39, treasurer; and Richard R. Flood '39, secretary...
...equate with the curve. But if the improvement should prove permanent Professor Holcombe could then consider changing the course standards to preserve the indubitable advantage of having a scientific curve of distribution. But any arbitrary attempt attempt to dam the tide of rising marks now will rightly loose a flood of complaints on the Professor's head...
...play will be a kaleidoscopic performance, according to the predictions of Richard R. Flood '39, manager and publicity director. There are to be a series of specialties accompanied by various hit tunes composed by the club members. Verner E. Kelley '37, mare for the last two years, and Chester W. MacArthur '37, heroine, sing "Lying in the Sun", in one of the scenes...
...prices, there can be little doubt that a process of inflation of a mild degree is underway. But with Governor Eccles talking about a balanced budget--a political impossibility--and clinging to rock-bottom interest rates, it will take more than mere "monetary monkey business" to stem the flood when it threatens to overflow its appointed bounds...