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...shallow arroyos which are dry most of the year; four sent the water pouring over streets and into houses, crashed bridges, washed out hillsides. The rain continued. When it finally stopped after five appalling days, Los Angeles had had the worst flood in its history, the most drastic outbreak of geographical temperament since the earthquake. Total property damage covering 30,000 square miles was guessed at $50,000,000 compared to the earthquake's $45,000,000. Twenty thousand people were homeless. And in its sudden rage the flood had taken probably 200 lives-ten in the collapse...
Fear of an outbreak of war, Marx went on to explain, has already put British diplomats in a position where they are willing to condone the risky manoeuvers of the nationalistic dictatorships...
...some 6,000 Protestant missionaries working in China at the outbreak of the present war, only about 300 have left the country. In some cases in battle areas where there are wounded to care for, the missionaries remain at the colleges and universities, hospitals and medical missions where for years they and their predecessors Christianized and educated the best class of Chinese, nurturing the indigenous Chinese Christian phenomenon of the New Life Movement of the Chiang Kai-sheks. In the New York Times last week, details in a lengthy airmailed dispatch by F. Tillman Durdin on the fall of Nanking...
...years, despite the fact that his music was the last word in elegance and refinement. Unprolific and self-restricted to the smaller forms of composition (he never wrote a symphony), Ravel managed a fairly steady output of clean-cut, impeccably styled works which was interrupted only by the outbreak of the War. Frail, diminutive Ravel served as an ambulance driver; later his health collapsed under the strain. After the War he bought himself a secluded villa in the country outside Paris, where he spent most of his remaining years...
...known as "interpretive dancing." One thing that prompted her to write about her own work was the feeling that "this Pure Dance had been getting away with esthetic murder long enough." But the strongest impulse to express herself otherwise than in painting and pantomime came after she saw the outbreak of the Spanish revolution last year. Back in the U. S. she found herself writing magazine articles, speaking on the radio "as a person about persons," finally eager to speak, as a person, about herself...