Word: crested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Capping the rise of the wet grassy stretches is the tall Civil War monument. Around the crest are a siege gun and a captured tank. And lettered on the base of the column is an inscription barely visible through the dark of the rain...
...improving 32 mental hospitals) the greatest energy. Better known to present-day readers is Clifford Beers, whose autobiography, A Mind That Found Itself, published in 1908, created a sensation by exposing his typically brutal treatment in private, endowed and State hospitals during a three-year stay. On the crest of the ensuing public indignation was launched the modern mental hygiene movement, which during the World War received an impetus like neurology in the Civil War. When IQ tests tried out on the Army revealed that nearly half of the U. S. population was mentally defective, psychiatrists decided to look into...
...ancient London, built on the site of a Roman temple of Apollo. Britain's kings have always been crowned there because it was the church of Edward the Confessor and William the Conqueror. London's Cathedral is the many times larger St. Paul's on the crest of Ludgate Hill. Here such state ceremonies as the Thanksgiving after the Armistice and the Jubilees are always performed. The former Dean of St. Paul's, "Gloomy" William Ralph Inge, was known to thousands who never heard of that able amateur artist, the Very Rev. William Foxley Norris, Dean...
HANOVER, N. H.--Riding on the crest of a terrific hitting splurge, Coach Jeff Tesreau's Indian baseball team has slugged its way into first place in the Eastern Intercollegiate League with double victories over Princeton and Columbia on the last two Saturdays and a single victory over Penn several weeks...
...must not, of course, be blind to certain objections. First, swimming is an individual sport, depending not on team play so much as on individual prowess. Secondly, the team at present is riding on the crest of a wave of success, and the trough of the wave must not be forgotten in the exhilaration of the moment. And on the basis of the ranking of swimming in other colleges, reluctance on the part of Harvard to change its status would not be at all unreasonable...