Word: ebbs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...morning a brisk northwest wind combined with the ebb tide to make very fast conditions. Paddling downstream for a mile and a half the first two eights changed shells, rowed on a few strokes and then returned to the boathouse...
...light following wind and an ebb tide made conditions for the trial very favorable. It was the second row over the course for the Harvard crew, but the first one in which the eight did more than paddle. The time was 14 seconds faster than the clocking turned in by the Yale eight day before yesterday...
...centuries full of a familiar ebb and change, and, like all, exciting and beautiful...
...story of the Harvard-Yale football series is the tale of the ebb and flood of two great tides of victory, broken only by occasional pauses. From 1876 to 1908, Yale was riding on the crest of the wave of triumph, sweeping all Harvard elevens before her with relentless power. In 1908 the tide turned, and although the Crimson victory in that year was followed by a Yale win in 1909, Harvard was launched on her triumphant march under the headship of Percy D. Haughton '90, the coach who led the Crimson forces out of the football doldrums...
...President and the Colonel are not so far apart as these circumstances would indicate. The pomp of office and the prestige of daring are alike playthings of the press and the public. There is an incessant pulse in the nation: and ebb follows flow and flow succeeds ebb with deadly certainty...