Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Justices fought each other by feeding their own accounts of the court's battles to newsmen and columnists, violating the confidences of the court and creating a flood of gossip. In fact, it was a leak to a columnist which had brought on Justice Jackson's blast...
...Fabulous Forties, strapping but starry-eyed debutante daughter of the sports world's Terrific Twenties, and by the same sire, World War, will be given her official coming out party in a great al fresco soiree under the flood lights of the Yankee Stadium here tomorrow night. Bill Cunningham in the Boston Herald, June 19. ...Al fresco, ad infinitum, ad nauseam...
...Passed the first major river-and-harbors bill since before the war, authorizing 50 navigation, flood control and hydroelectric power projects at a cost of $900 million...
Race against Time. Into the project, which rivaled the building of the Pyramids, went Chinese rock and Chinese earth, Mississippi flood mats and Douglas fir pilings from the forests of the Pacific Northwest; into it also went UNRRA money and UNRRA grain. But the most important contribution was Chinese hands -200,000 of them-working night...
Academic festivities of this week mark the conclusion of Harvard's first postwar year. Roughly paralleling the manner of their departure, the faint trickle of returning veterans last September, enlarged to a heavy stream by February, and promises to become an overwhelming flood by next fall. With them they brought back an outlook, not changed but deepened by the experience...