Word: floods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...casualties can only be guessed at, but they have been huge - even among the Japanese, who have had to fight General Plague, General Flood, and General Attrition. The Japanese sack of Nanking will go down in history as the greatest mass sexual orgy of modern times - thousands of women and girls were assaulted to top off the mass execution of thousands of civilians. The fall of Canton last October was equally extraordinary: fearful that the story of Nanking would be repeated, Canton's 860,000 residents virtually abandoned the city within a few hours of the Japanese arrival - probably...
...universities, President Conant said, "the traditional wisdom of the past meets the flood tides of the moment. From their cross-currents flow new ideas, a few of which may live to enrich a later generation." Since the work of scholars can only be judged by their "long-run significance," he remarked that "they may be permitted to interpose at times a caveat to all who would regard the imperious demands of the present as sure guides for the future...
...Farm Bill (TIME, May 22), the Senate last week shoveled earth on the corpse. From the House's supply bill for civil functions of the War Department ($305,188,154), the Senate Appropriations Committee manfully chopped $25,000,000 of rivers & harbors pork, $25,000,000 of flood control works. On the Senate floor, restlessness to restore these items impelled Majority Leader Barkley to promise that, if Senators would let the savings stand, the President would spend equivalent sums on these projects from Relief moneys. Avoiding a record vote, the Senators assured themselves of credit with the home folks...
...Germans for a time. The Swiss have besides a strong mountainous position a small but tough civilian army, probably strong enough to keep Nazis from trying to outflank the Maginot Line to the south. The Belgians are armed to teeth, and their country is well fortified. The Dutch can flood part of their country to keep Germans out of Rotterdam, Amsterdam, The Hague. Each of these three is apparently strong enough to fight a delaying action that would enable the Allies to come to their assistance...
...Clarence Addison Dykstra, 56, is serious, hardworking, cold, a political fencesitter. Arriving at Wisconsin two years ago to clean up after Glenn Frank, who had a feud with Governor Phil La Follette, Dykstra pacified the faculty in the same efficient way as he had handled Cincinnati's flood as its City Manager, but he has so far kindled no fire among faculty or students. Frank Porter Graham, 52, is called "Mr. Frank" by his students at the University of North Carolina. Generally rated the ablest U. S. State university president, he has helped make North Carolina tops...