Word: torrent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since then there have been eleven fatal crashes of scheduled passenger transports, first and most significant of which was that of a TWA Douglas at Atlanta, Mo. in which Senator Bronson Cutting was killed (TIME, May 13, 1935). This disaster evoked from the Senators surviving colleagues a torrent of denunciation against the airlines and an investigation which has continued 20 months...
...MIGHTY TORRENT-Edgar Johnson -Stackpole ($3.50). A book about biography, interpreting with "bold emphasis and omission" the development of English biography down to Lincoln Steffens' Autobiography...
...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 a wet and gloomy hell of high water as the swollen torrent swept 900 mi. south-west through ten sodden States. Pennsylvania got off comparatively easy this year. The citizens of Johnstown, which can never forget 1889, got worried when the Conemaugh went to five feet above normal after a 72-hr, rain, but few Johnstownians took the precaution of moving to higher...
...hours been progressively impregnated with cold rain stamped their feet in impatience. On the open pine-board stands continuously flushed by the downpour some Congressmen and distinguished guests took an icy showerbath in full regalia. In the inaugural pavilion covered by a roof beneath which the gusty torrent swept, attendants dumped the puddles from chairs as the Cabinet and seven Justices of the Supreme Court (including all its aged conservative members) marched down the official red carpet, which oozed water like a sponge, to take their seats. Mrs. Roosevelt rushed about oblivious to the deluge finding blankets for relatives...
...other rivers, fed by continuing downpours, were still rising at week's end. Louisville was the hardest hit city in the whole flood area. Sitting on comparatively level ground where the Ohio drops 26 ft. in two mi., Louisville watched its west end sink under the yellow torrent which drove 200,000 from their homes. Telephone service was disrupted. The city was put on a two-hour water ration each day. As sewage backed up in the municipal disposal system, two typhoid inoculation stations were established. Bus and trolley service was abandoned and only the Southern Ry. continued running...