Word: river
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Czechoslovakia went down the river. English diplomatic prestige took a beating. But Neville Chamberlain stopped a World...
...shallow rivers of Britain's twelve-by-42-mile Caribbean paradise swelled over their banks, and many of St. Lucia's native blacks hastily abandoned their plantation huts, moved their wives & children up the sides of the valleys to what they thought was safety. No sooner had they escaped the floods than worse disaster loomed. In the hills the soaked ground gave way here & there, slipped with a roar into the valleys. Panic-stricken natives now hunted for slopes that would not slide. The alarmed British administration at Castries, the island's seat, conscripted gangs of banana...
...only other point against the Wizard of Langdell Hall, is that he is not a Westerner. The West has been becoming more clamorous recently in their demand for a Supreme Court Justice. Never in the history of the country has a man born west of the Mississippi River been appointed to the Supreme Tribunal. Mr. Justice Sutherland, who is listed as hailing from Utah, was born in England, and Mr. Justice Field, who held sway during the seventies and eighties, although he was registered from California, really was an Eastern invader from new York...
Since the Houses along the river have been built, the University has virtually a Maginot line of defense against invaders of sovereign Cambridge territory...
Steam tunnels to Dunster House, across the river to the Business School, and under the Yard to the scientific laboratories constitute extensions of the underground labyrinth...