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Word: awash (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1931-1931
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China's angry dragon, the Yangtse River, was dropping a few inches a day last week. The flood peak had definitely passed. But there was no respite from death and destruction. Hankow, "Chicago of China," was still awash with germ-laden, stinking waters. Gendarmerie headquarters estimated 250,000 dead in the vicinity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: No Respite | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

...reported the wettest day of the wettest summer in 40 years last week. The Thames was up. The London fire brigade received hourly calls to pump out flooded houses. At Silverdale. near Stoke-upon-Trent, the whole (town took to the upper stories. Streets, fields, and lower stories were awash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Deluge | 8/24/1931 | See Source »

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