Word: springing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Public Opinion. The flood district looks to the Federal Government for a flood-prevention program 'that will definitely prevent a recurrence of this spring's disaster. Proud, the people have almost without exception accepted food and money from the Red Cross with hesitation and apparently with shame, though certainly their destitution has been none of their making. Neither have they set up any loud clamor for Congressional grants of money or supplies, although the feeling that they have been more or less forgotten by the rest of the country has undoubtedly been a growing sentiment. Said State Senator Scott McGehee...
Reservoirs. A system of reservoirs in the upper reaches of streams tributary to the Mississippi would, it is claimed, absorb the spring overflow of these streams, thus catching the floods at an early stage and eliminating them. Such a system would, however, be tremendously expensive (Dayton, Ohio, alone spent $30,000,000 on a reservoir project after the 1913 Dayton Flood), and would not affect rain-swollen streams at points below the reservoir sites...
...Last spring the superintendent of the Humane Society of New York visited the hospital. In Dr. Shelling's laboratory he found a mongrel dog (mostly fox terrier) with her muzzle strapped shut with adhesive tape. The dog's name was Nellie. She could not eat, drink or lick her wounds. That was cruelty, decided the humane society agent who forthwith had Experimenter Shelling arrested. David Belais, president of the humane society, raged; altered his will to cut off the Jewish Hospital from a legacy. His wife, Diana Belais, is president of the Anti-Vivisection Society of New York...
...Harvard University Press last night announced the forthcoming appearance of one of its most important spring publications, "The Erechtheum," which will be ready next month...
With the announcement of definite plans and a date for the meeting in Symphony Hall next spring, a second to the favor shown toward the plan by the News is in order. When the Harvard club dropped-out of the intercollegiate competition last yea there remained only informal meetings such as the concert before the Yale-Harvard football game, Glee clubs, unlike athletic teams, are self sufficient,-competition is not a necessity. But, whereas there is no necessity, there is a very marked opportunity of intercollegiate relations of the highest type. A joint glee club concert does not even imply...