Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that water thrown on an incendiary bomb only hastens its explosion. The Boston papers have made a start in publicizing the A B C's of air raid defense. It is a subject that cannot be over-publicized. To be thoroughly effective, it must be put forward in a flood of pamphlets and posters that even the most ardent enemy of publicity notices cannot ignore...
...England's pioneer aviators, Captain Fogg served during the Vermont flood in 1939 he established a New England record for continuous flying by delivering mail and supplies in a plane equipped with skills 600 miles daily for two moths...
...Fire, flood and boom all swept Alaska last week. The fire swept through Seward, southern terminus of the Alaska Railroad. The blaze started in the Second Chance Barber Shop, raged for eight hours, destroyed half the town (pop. 949). Army officers set up emergency kitchens, found shelter for the homeless. In the rest of Alaska, men were fighting not fire but water...
...urge for music and lack of money for an instrument moved Felix, as a boy, to make himself a banjo strung with J. & P. Coats spool thread. A Coats Co. stockholder, flood-bound at the Alley house, was so impressed by this contraption that he sent Felix a fine store banjo and persuaded the company to use a picture of a barefoot, banjo-playing boy as a trademark. At 16 Felix also wrote a ballad, Kidder Cole, which became famous...
However, Harvard's weather eye has been looking askance at Yale's labor situation for the past few months. As at Princeton, any such movement here would have to have the support of the undergraduates before it would be accepted by the University. If the University learned from a flood of petitions or from Student Council action that the students would not mind making their own beds, it would be very likely to accept the proposal...