Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afternoon I to tandem in the country; and I did hear a robin and see a crocus and a beautiful day it was. By and by out of the clear sky--tells me Wellesley College girls are giving up their desserts and the price thereof to be given to flood relief. So we to get a chocolate and thence took to talking about the "Veterans of Future Wars"; and that they one day will spill blood on foreign soil and be the fathers of many children; and I still think this is mighty fine arguing for the Oath Bill...
Requested by flood relief officials to aid in extending communications in isolated Haverhill, the Club sent E. MacDonald Nyhen '37 and Frank G. Morris, Jr. '38 to the stricken area on Saturday with a portable five meter transmitter...
...Westcott, Manager of the University Dining Halls, stated last night that probably the delay in transportation caused by flood waters was responsible. It seems possible that partial separation of the cream may have occurred. He added that in spite of its taste the milk was perfectly wholesome and approved by State authorities...
...skate wheels. All winter they have threatened to break loose when the snow melted, and last week, with the disappearance of the last chunk of dirty ice, the whole younger generation of Cowperthwaite Street and McCarthy Road swooped down upon Dunster's concrete promenade on masse. The roaring Spring flood of roller skates...
...turning out tunes by the gross long before the little dean of the Alley allied himself with pictures. Elaborate music departments sprang up in Hollywood in 1927 when sound films first came in. Hundreds of tunesmiths bummed their way West, found jobs overnight, collected huge salaries. After the first flood of musical films, deflation came fast, and there was a rush back to Broadway. Not until 1933 did Hollywood again become the songwriters' paradise. Reason then was Warner Brothers' Forty-Second Street which started a new vogue for musical films...