Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dykstra, City Manager of Cincinnati and prominent in recent flood relief activities, was chosen president of the University of Wisconsin, it was reported last night by a member of the Wisconsin board of trustees. Dykstra succeeds Dr. Glenn Frank who was recently ousted by the board...
...flood-wave of anti-intellectualism which has been inundating American university life during recent years will find an adamantine dike in its way if President Conant's experiment in study- as-a-hobby is carried through to its logical conclusion at Harvard within the next few years...
What made us particularly hot under the collar was the chief's implication that the Court caused the Mississippi flood. That would be a pretty tall order for even fifteen not-so-old men, and it seems to us the kind of thing that no mortal has been able to accomplish since the signal failure of King Canute, hundreds of years...
Result of this was that there was nothing, either in Japan or in the U. S., to prevent the trickle of cheap Japanese cottons from becoming a horrid flood...
...plan was as simple in theory as it is certain to be complex in operation. In good years, the farmer pays a portion of his crop as an insurance premium, and the Government stores the premiums away. In years of drought, flood, hail or insect plague, the Government draws on its reserve to compensate the farmer for his crop losses. Thus the farmer is insured against financial disaster, the nation is insured against hunger, and both are insured against the price dips and soars of alternating surplus and scarcity...