Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think straight because of Durwood alcohol I just drank," mumbled the Ashley pale Sage, "but things will probably get pretty Savage in the Stadium today. Whether the score is Harlow, I predict that Jawn will open the flood Gates, and De Angelis will be singing over the Bear's body tonight. Harvard 14, Brown...
Among those to founder in the Republican flood are such staunch Administration supporters as Senators Josh Lee, Parentis Brown, and George Norris; among those riding the tide to victory are such consummate Roosevelt-haters as Tom Dewey, Ham Fish, and "Curly" Brooks. Read as a chapter in American politics the 1942 elections stand as a clear-cut blat in the face of Democratic President Roosevelt--his severest and most significant check since his first election ten years...
...amendment's support came a sudden flash flood of letters and telegrams from U.S. drys. Sample, received by Kansas' Senator Arthur Capper: "The Lydian Class of the College Hill Methodist Sunday School . . . urges the adoption of the Lee amendment...
...Utah on Election Day the U.S. will learn whether one of the tides which reached flood stage in the depression of the '30s has finally begun to ebb. The big issue in Utah's election is Proposition No. 2, a referendum on post-depression's outstanding example of Stone Age economics: the most vindictive chain-store tax ever proposed. Not content with imposing a tax of $50 to $500 per store (on a graduated scale geared to the total number of stores owned by a chain all over the U.S.), the Utah bill also aims to embalm...
Perhaps the exiled French and the British were sailing with a tide they could not turn. Or perhaps the United Nations had decided at last that revolt in Europe was at flood tide...