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...Crest of Crime Wave...
...There is an encouraging number of cities, however, that report decreases in 1924. For the most part, the 1924 figures fall short of the level of 1916-18, and in some cases the difference is striking . . . There is some reason to think that the period 1916-18 represents the crest of a wave of intemperance as a cause of dependency, and if this is true the figures for 1924 appear more favorable than they really...
...From crest to crest the "longest" wave was set at 300 yards. (Let golfers picture a drive and a pitch; tennis players, 12 courts laid end-to-end; city-dwellers, 3 1/2 blocks). The time it took one wave to replace another was approximated at 20 seconds. "Longest" waves thus travel 15 yards per second, 40 miles per hour...
...thrill of the possibility of victory; his boat was first at the gun; the royal cutter slipped farther and farther behind. But, having learned to savor the futility of hope, doubtless he was not surprised when Lord Waring's White Heather slipped past his lee on the crest of a feathering wave and beat him across the line. Grimly he twisted his barnacle, fixed upon his features his professionally smile, repeated mechanically: "I will try again...
...best interests of America demand peace; she is doing all in her power to further disarmament. And yet on the very crest of anti-war agitation the United States is unintentionally making it possible for the war feeling to live on. Today thousands of Americans are thinking of the Lusitania with renewed malice. Those who realize the danger of this attitude lack the moral courage to point...