Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Emergency medical measures to quell a flood of dysentery that struck Radcliffe yesterday were put into operation by Annex health officials last night. Normal college routine collapsed at Whitman Hall, hardest hit by the plague, when 22 percent of the residents were forced indoors...
...meeting also adopted a plank which called for the federal government to take a "positive constructive role" in atomic development for both war and peace, in regional flood control and water power development, and in large-scale low-cost public housing and clearance. The club felt that public housing would relieve the rent situation-without leaving the way open for unfair treatment of landlords for political reasons...
Strictures & Sleeves. In the same ten years (1927-37), China's Westernization proceeded faster than ever. These were the years of new railways, roads, schools, flood control, famine-fighting agencies. Chiang himself struggled with the problem of how the old traditions (represented by Confucianism) could be blended with the new ideas. He married one of the three Soong sisters, Wellesley-graduated Meiling, a Christian and a daughter of famed "Old Charlie" Soong, who had made his first fortune in printing and selling Chinese Bibles. (Chiang's first wife, who was still living then, was sent back...
...exchange of notes which Edwin B. Newman, lecturer on Psychology, filed and forgot nine months ago has suddenly yielded a flood of letters and newspaper editorials praising him and also damning him as "fuzzy-minded" and "un-American...
...plaque plan, and the directors of the Harvard Clubs. Two groups have asked that the franchise be extended. Alumni Bulletin editorials have urged an official polling of all alumni. And, after sending a brochure to all College alumni, the Committee for a Memorial Activities Center is receiving a flood of postcards which show that Harvard's graduates want a say in their memorial...