Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...constabulary officer, Lieutenant Pedro Dionisio, raced the flood to his headquarters at Echagüe and telegraphed before the wires went down that there were already 20 known dead in the village of Cagayan. He added: "No reports received from the towns and barrios around Ilagan, as they are submerged." The postmaster at Alcala succeeded in reporting that the river was six feet over the tops of the telegraph poles. Reports from another village indicated that there were 75 persons missing; 54 villages were known to be submerged; people crouching on the roofs of their houses were carried away screaming...
Christmas is house-cleaning time for booksellers. The publishers remit their flood of new titles while shelves are cleared, ledgers audited for the new year Readers may now reconsider the past year's output, check what they have read, what they have missed, what they might give. Following is a list of the outstanding-ing books...
...Harvey, who was Jack I. Horovitz when he graduated from Princeton in 1925. Princeton's comprehensive upperclass examinations cannot be easily crammed for. Hun's patrons are almost exclusively freshmen and sophomores. Princeton has never taken official notice of Tutor Hun, except to protect dullards from a flood of Hun mail by ruling three years ago that failures in courses should not have their names publicly posted...
Accidents sent three other New Yorkers to the hospital - Les Corzine with a broken ankle, Gene Rose with a bone bruise, Tony Sarausky with a concussion. Darkness came on so early in the afternoon that the second half was played under flood lights. In a cold, steady rain, the game remained partially concealed from 18,000 spectators by a cloud of steam arising from the players' bodies. When the lights went off and the mist cleared, Boston had won, 14-to-0, with one touch down on Donald Irwin's line plunge climaxing a 38-yd. march...
...Hospitals have received no new endowments. Returns from existing endowments have vanished or have been materially reduced." While Mr. Smith was pleading his high cause, suspension of nation-wide ticker service with the day's closing prices and final bid & ask quotations brought down a flood of startled inquiries and outraged protests by telephone and telegraph...