Word: ebbs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...history of football relations between Dartmouth and Harvard has been extremely varied, like the ebb and flow of the tides. Although the study of statistics is likely to be anathema to the sensitive and intellectual soul, a glance at the football game records in the Harvard H Book ought to fire a spark of interest even in the highbrow. The first battle with Dartmouth was held in 1882, when each player believed, like Samson, that his source of strength lay in his side-burns. From then on, the results of these games and the positions which they occupied upon...
...said, the course of business is not purely fortuitous or haphazard. By studing the price movements in the United States for the past 20 years, an index of trade for the United States has been obtained. This chart reveals a well defined ebb and flow of prosperity and depression. First comes a period of business depression, then a recovery; this is followed by a period of prosperity followed by financial strain, which ultimately brings about a financial crisis. These five phases, each leading into the other, are known as the business cycle...
...German in 870 divided the territory of their nephew Lo thair between them, Lotharingia has been the victim of the conflicting ambitions of France and Germany. Although originally Alsace and the lower Rhine were given to Germany and Lorraine was alloted to France, neither country has been content. The ebb and flow of time has in one century carried the German arms to Verdun and in another advanced the fleur-de-lis or the tricolor to the Rhine and Westphalis...
...opposite extreme of poor taste was exemplified by another Manhattan paper, The New York Call (Socialist) which assumed a tone not common even in the rabidly Democratic press: "HARDING, JOCKEYED TO TOP, DIED AT LOW EBB OF CAREER . . . GENIAL HANDSHAKER WRECKED BY BURDEN TOO HEAVY...
...height of his fortune Villa commanded 35,000 men. He might, after his capture of Mexico City, have become dictator, but he lost his head, and in March, 1916, at the ebb of his fortunes, fleeing from Obregon, he raided Columbus, N. M. The U. S. Government sent General Perishing and 4,000 men to "get" Villa, dead or alive. The expedition cost $100,000,000 and failed to get Villa, though it broke his power. After his final defeat he promised to settle down and be good, if it were made worth his while...