Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Everything from false teeth to stray bulldogs is handled by the lost-and-found departments of the University, located in the Harvard Union, the offices of the H.A.A., and the headquarters of Colonel Charles R. Apted '06. Day by day a flood of articles is turned in to Colonel Apted, and working with incredible rapidity he manages to return a small proportion of these articles to their rightful owners. All things found in the Yard, even tortoises strayed from the Biology Department, eventually are turned in to the Colonel, who throws them into a closet and waits for the owner...
...this ghost of inflation which hovers over financial circles and prevents a restoration of confidence. As Dr. Kemmerer ably pointed out. It is the federal deficit which constitutes the chief threat of inflation. As long as the government continues its policy of lavish expenditures, as long as a glittering flood of gold purs from the Treasury, no honeyed words of the President can banish the fear inspired by the prospects of monetary manipulation. Regardless of its temporary effects on unemployment, any plan which contemplates the expenditure of billions of dollars is detrimental to the country's welfare insofar...
...Mayer (MGM), the cinema industry was turning out Stop-Sinclair "news-reels," had even assessed many of its stars for Merriam campaign funds. A united front against Sinclairism was effected by the three big Los Angeles papers, which simply quit reporting news of EPIC and its sponsor. A flood of news-photographs was released locally and to the nation to prove that EPIC was luring an army of bums to California. Their authenticity became extremely questionable when one Los Angeles newspaper went so far as to print a picture which the cinema-wise claimed to be a "still" from Warner...
...pump like Viscount Castlereagh? Because it is a slender thing of wood, That up and down its awkward arm doth sway, And coolly spout and spout and spout away, In one weak, washy, everlasting flood...
...Totally marooned at Government House in Australia's "Garden Capital," Canberra, last week was the Duke of Gloucester. Reason: a flood which boiled around Government House for miles. Inconvenient, unpopular and sparsely populated, the seven-year-old "Garden Capital" has cost over $50,000,000. Dominion officials felt that His Majesty's third son should see it, barely got him into Government House before the flood burst...