Word: rushed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fell close to the main Ohio and Mississippi valleys from a point below Cincinnati to a point in upper Arkansas. The distribution in 1927 was similar except that it was still lower down the main streams. As General Jadwin said: "A flood of the Mississippi is not the torrential rush of water from denuded hillsides, but is the slowly rising, long continued outpour of the drainage from a vast region...
...disaster. In the lower Ohio Valley there never had been such a flood. The reason for last year's flood was that the winter was too cold. The snow stayed on the ground too deep and too long. When it suddenly thawed, the water ran off in a rush because the ground was still frozen. The reason for last week's flood was that the Eastern winter had not been cold enough. Instead of remaining on the ground as snow and draining gradually, the winter precipitation had fallen as cold rain, millions of tons of it, to make...
...that many letters between Radek and Trotsky were carried by Vladimir Romm, erstwhile Washington correspondent of Izvestia ("News"), the official government newspaper. Comrade Romm was far enough down the list of witnesses so that before he was called a group of leading news correspondents in Washington had opportunity to rush a cable to U. S. Ambassador Davies in Moscow. They asked him to tell the Soviet Supreme Court, that "In our dealings with Romm we found him a true friend and advocate of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Never once did he even faintly indicate lack of sympathy...
From smartshops, from bargain basements, from stores great & small, some 5,000 leading merchants of the land assembled in Manhattan last week for the annual convention of the National Retail Dry Goods Association. With the Christmas rush behind them, the Easter season dimly distant, the retailers took a full week off, stayed for a five-day meeting which included no less than 35 sessions, 170 speeches. Between sessions some retailers managed to squeeze in visits to spring furniture shows, lamp shows, corset shows. Attendance at Manhattan hotspots during the week showed a considerable bulge. For most of the retailers, however...
...historian of 1937 is up against in the way of awkward facts dating from the Revolution. The able correspondent Arno Dosch-Fleurot, who long served the New York World, was on the spot in Russia during the Revolution and has written: "While the faces of many individuals in the rush of events remain in my memory, I cannot remember even having seen Kamenev, Zinoviev or Stalin then. Later they and lots of people blossomed out, but in the days of 'do or die' there was just one big figure-TROTSKY." Lenin in the hottest days for Reds...