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Word: flooding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...flood curiosities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Rolling On | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...Paducah, Ky., the Ohio flood waters rose so high in front of the Public Library that Andrew Carnegie's statue was submerged to the chin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 15, 1937 | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...Flood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 15, 1937 | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...Manhattan arrived "General" Jacob Sechler Coxey from the flood area brimming with a plan to avert similar catastrophe: to straighten out the Mississippi River from Cairo, Ill. to the Gulf of Mexico, making it 600 miles long instead of the present 1,200. Crowed he: "Henry Ford is just wild about my plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 15, 1937 | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...Murray, Ky., unreconstructed Southerners, offended by the term "refugees," welcomed thousands of unkempt flood sufferers as "visiting friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 15, 1937 | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

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