Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the President also: ¶ Yielded to rampaging Congressional pork-barrelers (TIME, Sept. 30) and the election tides by approving the expenditure for public works and flood control of $635 million frozen last August by a White House economy order...
Camphell indicated that the volume of complaints seems to indicate that something is peculiar in spite of yesterday's statement by Frank O. Lunden, ticket manager of the Association, who assured all students that his office was doing its best to cope with the flood of applications for this Saturday's game, and that no undergraduate was deliberately being beaten out of a good seat...
...expected post-war flood to Cambridge of students from Europe and South America definitely has not materialized so far, as this number represents a slight loss from last Spring's total...
...Like most "definitive" biographies, Matthew Josephson's Stendhal is heavily ballasted with tinkling trifles. It lacks, for all its efforts, the dazzling high spiritedness that poured like a flood out of Stendhal himself. Nonetheless, like Josephson's Victor Hugo (TIME, Oct. 19, 1942), it is the best and most comprehensive English study of its subject, a careful collection of material, skillfully assembled and organized...
...record stalls looked as gay as well-appointed nurseries last week; an unprecedented flood of children's albums was ready for the Christmas trade. The newly recorded daydreams and nightmares ranged from Nelson Eddy's bellowing like a whale to Jose Ferrer's reading of Mozart and Schubert biographies with symphonic accompaniment. Best of the lot: a straightforward dramatization of Oscar Wilde's poignant fairy tale, The Happy Prince, starring Bing Crosby and Orson Welles (Decca, 4 sides) and Balladeer Woody Guthrie's original harum-scarum Songs to Grow On-Nursery Days (Disc, 6 sides...