Word: waters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...13th amendments to THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION. The consequences of their actions are grave. The faucet which James Mulhern was to repair became rapidly worse during the period of student pranks and caused the basement of a two-family house to be FLOODED BY THREE FEET OF BELMONT SPRINGS WATER...
Residents of Thayer Hall's Middle entry were temporarily deprived of lavatory facilities late Monday night when a main burst, flooding the basement floor with over a foot of water...
...patient was the whole U.S., and diagnosing its state of health was something like standing in shallow water and trying to feel a whale's pulse. There was room for all, and last week doctors were crowding alongside by the scores, prodding with their stethoscopes, waving hastily scribbled prescription blanks, and bitterly berating each other as quacks, bunion choppers, herb cooks and barbers...
Snooty Reminder. Canton's municipal government, creaking and groaning under an extra load created by the mushrooming population (already estimated at more than 1,600,000), was on the verge of complete breakdown. Electricity was sometimes on, sometimes off; tap water was black and brackish; the city's tiny, overworked fire department screamed up & down streets until its sirens threatened to drown out the busy whistles of the gaily bannered river steamers. On Saturday, one of the bantam-sized fire trucks struck and killed a young woman pedestrian in front of the Oikwan. As it roared on toward...
...possible-to make these critics sublimely happy. The picture oozes tragedy from every pore. Nothing, but absolutely nothing, turns out right. The hero, that usually indestructible character, blunders into a hopeless jam and ends his days being squeezed into a fine aspic by the pressure in 100 fathoms of water. The heroine marries the villain in a fit of pique after her uncle has been burned to a crisp by the hero. Her life with the villain is very unhappy and she soon dies spouting cliches in the arms of the hero. The villain alone is the only one able...