Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Holland, less industrialized than Belgium, fears that cheaper Belgian manufactures will flood Holland if tariff barriers are removed; Belgium, with less advanced agriculture than Holland, fears that its farmers will be swamped by Dutch foodstuffs...
...moving? Nearly all scientific progress thus far, says Dr. Conant, has been in the "natural sciences"-those concerned with man's environment, rather than with man himself. The "social sciences" (everything from psychology to history) have certainly not given man much help in keeping up with the flood of revolutionary knowledge and techniques developed by the natural sciences. Science's next broad campaign may be to develop the social sciences to the point where they do some good...
...essentially the same tale in the Winthrop-Eliot softball game. Fred Flickinger, Dunster had a 5 to 4 advantage over the Elephants going into the seventh. Then the flood gates opened, and Eliot scored eight runs, including a wind-blown homer by Bob Morgan with the sacks saturated to win, 12 to 8. Balding Stu Bartle led the Mastadons in the field, playing a great game at shortstop...
Minor Inconvenience. In New York City, the strikebound 10% were advised to use police boxes in a pinch. In Chicago, big businesses with perishable out-of-town orders put most long distance calls in the emergency (fire, flood, death) or urgent business category, got cut off occasionally when they started a supposedly desperate call with a windy "How's the weather out there?" Chicago suburbanites had their crises too. James Ruzek, who lives in dialless Berwyn, works in a struck plant in dialless Cicero, and has a worrying wife, sent his pet carrier pigeon flying home daily with...
...quiz shows and soap operas are wearing thin in their turn. When sponsors do realize that the American's concern with his personal inadequacies is not limited to "cathartics and mouth-washes," and turn their shame-on-you technique to exposing airpockets in his education, we can expect a flood of adult programs...