Word: ebbs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Democracy at Ebb Tide...
...factors which go to explain this phenomena. Two of the games were played away this year, and the Brown Stadium did not draw such a large assemblage, since it is not located at a very central point. Also, it was played when Harvard's aspirations were at their lowest ebb...
...Kiio Sung-lien, commander of Chang's Tenth Division, was apparently the moving spirit behind this military coup; and despatches early in the week pictured him as "imprisoning" Chang at Mukden, his capital. Later it appeared that Chang's fortunes were not at quite so low an ebb, but that his power has certainly been badly shaken...
...species of animals aged 8 to 15 million years. Most were taken from beds on the sea floor at the foot of towering cliffs, on the Santa Cruz coast. There the average tide-rise is 56 feet, and the work had to be done in dashes at the ebb. There was no evidence that the creatures found had had any communication by a land bridge with North America or any other continent. They formed a unique group of pre-Pleistocene fauna-giant ground sloths, shell-backed glyptodons, macrauchenia (camels, snouted like tapirs), toxodons (tusked hippos) and a bird-like flesh...
...desired to sacrifice itself for something that was worth while, but that American colleges have by no means wholly succeeded in making their students feel that the intellectual life is worth while. I referred to a committee which in 1903 found respect for intellectual attainment at a very low ebb at Harvard; and added that the condition has since been much improved by the general examination and the system of tutors...