Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Better leave!" neighbors warned three families living on the Flynn plantation, twelve miles east of Little Rock, Ark. "Think we'll stay-river won't get near us," they answered. Late that night, dwellers on higher ground saw lights, heard screams on the Flynn plantation. Soon the lights went out, the screams were silenced. In the morning there was deep water where three houses had stood...
Near England, Ark., an airplane observer saw a shirt being flapped from a hole in the roof of a cotton gin. Daily for ten days the plane returned, "bombing" the hole accurately with supplies which saved the refugee's lives. ... A corps of flyers bravely patrolled a 400-mile stretch south of Memphis, in land planes. If forced down certain drowning awaited them. No respecter of greatness, the flood sadly hampered the glory-cruise of William Hale Thompson, Chicago mayor, who last week started down the Mississippi from Cairo, accompanied by a large party on the river steamers Cincinnati...
Property damage was estimated from $500,000,000 to a billion. The flooded zone is all rich cotton land. Most of the victims were small farmers-owners of several acres, a few pigs, chickens, cows, a mule. Their lives spared, they saw watery desolation where their possessions had been...
...Support and Maintenance. Since 1911 there have been been two organizations, the Phillips Brooks House Association and the Students' Association, to foster extra-curricular activities in the Medical School. These have sometimes been rivals, some-times complementary and always unnecessary by one. Their activities have fluctuated like a see saw with the Phillips Brooks House Association sitting on one end and the Students Association on the other. During the last three years the Phillips Brooks House Association has steadily mounted with the Student Association dipping downward. Such was the tendency until June, 1926, (an eventful date!) when...
...once correctly--as "a cast that Dickens himself would have chosen". The first night audience, harboring ominous misgivings as to a twentieth century Pickwick, burst into relieved applause when the curtain rose on the excellent representation of the court of the White Hart Inn, and kept applauding as it saw Sam Weller, boots in hand, in amorous discourse with Betsy, the chambermaid. And Sam and Betsy proved to be no less accurately recreated than the other characters who form the genial frame to the Pickwick Club...