Word: waterous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dikes, the people of Vanport got a warning: the Columbia was 15 feet above flood level, highest in 54 years. It might overflow. One afternoon it did. The railroad fill protecting Vanport broke suddenly, and Vanport's jerry-built structures crumpled like matchwood under 15 feet of muddy water. In the wild scramble for safety, wives were separated from husbands, mothers from children. Bewildered and shocked, survivors told of seeing "hundreds" trapped by splintering walls or crushed by floating wreckage. Men hacked at the roofs of broken buildings looking for the missing, divers probed the interiors of 800 sunken...
Despite climatic misadventures, reunion activities rolled with the promised well-oiled efficiency, the Reunion Committees headed by Russell Robb substituting and adlibbing when water interfered...
Anything that displaces more water than its weight will be used for the emigration. Some are sailing on the Marine boats (Jumper, Falcon, Tiger, etc.,), while others will be racing across on the Queens (Elizabeth and Mary) or on other massive ships of the line. A few fortunate ones will be making their Odyssey by air, but they all want the same thing: to see Europe as quickly as possible...
...Frank Knox Fellowship for study in the British Commonwealth went to Joseph Dee Everingham '49, of Clear-water, Florida, and Kirkland House, while the Augustus Clifford Tower Fellowship for study in a French university was gained by John Marshall Alcorn '45 of Pontiac, Illinois, and Eliot House. Both men are in History and Literature...
...hours of preliminary festivities at Poland Spring, Maine, the band of 180, together with their families, plans to entrain for Boston this morning--completely attired for the afternoon's celebration climax. From debarkation at North Station the group will march through Hub traffic to the Charles River Basin where "water taxis" are scheduled to pick up the crowd for a ride to the Newell Boat House in time for luncheon at Dillon Field House. Then follows the featured parade to the baseball diamond for the Yale game...