Word: backwash
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...drab backwash of the '80s in downtown Minneapolis one day last week went erect, seamy-faced Mayor George E. Leach. At the corner of Fifth Street and Hennepin Avenue, clangorous with streetcar traffic, he stood up before a nostalgic crowd. Said he: "I was here when the first brick was put in and I am here now to take the first brick out." Then, with a crowbar he pried one from the façade of an imposing seven-story Moorish-Victorian pile...
...backwash of its major pension battle Californians are waging not only a fight for a Senate seat but for their Governorship. Centre of the Governorship battle...
History of Propaganda. The tidal wave of propaganda against venereal diseases began on the Atlantic Coast, in the offices of Surgeon General Parran in Washington and Social Hygienist Snow in Manhattan. But in a sense the wave may be considered a tremendous backwash from California. At Palo Alto and San Francisco in the late 1890s, stubby little William Freeman Snow and tall, lanky Ray Lyman Wilbur were undergraduates (with Herbert Hoover), medical students, later professors together. Dr. Wilbur became (1911) Dean of Stanford University's medical school. Dr. Snow went East, organized and became (1914) general director...
Thomas H. Stephenson '37, president of the Debating Society, carried off the speaking honors as he gracefully glided through three minutes of pleasant drivel about the Old Howard, Landon-Roosevelt political backwash, and speaking from the monument at Radcliffe...
...normalcy backwash which put Warren G. Harding in the White House also deposited a Republican named Michael J. Hogan in Congress as Representative from Brooklyn. Distinguished only by his enormous obesity and his shag of white hair, Representative Hogan lasted the minimum two years in Washington, then drifted back to resume rooting for the political potatoes which are left for small-bore Republicans in Democratic Brooklyn. After a series of public jobs, he set up a private office where persons who wished could avail themselves of his experience in government...