Word: tidal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week the U. S. saw and heard more than 25,000 boys invade the city of Washington. Their tent cities spread beneath the Washington Monument, over Potomac Park both north and south of the Tidal Basin, across the river on Columbia Island and into the fields below Arlington National Cemetery on the Virginia shore. Everywhere barekneed youngsters in khaki perambulated through the streets with cameras and autograph books. Everywhere rose a babel of youthful voices, in childish versions of the accents of Maine and California, of Wisconsin and Texas. No connoisseur of mob scenes had ever seen such...
...Southern coast of Maine between Portland and Penobscot Bay, scores of tidal inlets snake from the sea between mud-flat peninsulas, crab-haunted and reedy. In these shallows live salt water worms by the billion, more worms than can be found in any similar region on the Atlantic Coast. For years Maine clamdiggers made a sideline of digging worms for bait, considered them chiefly a damnuisance because during the breeding season from April to June salt water blood-worms sting like bees. Then somebody discovered that when properly packed the worms would stay alive for two days, could be shipped...
...less, paid for by worm dealers at the rate of 75? per hundred. In night digging the men wear dazzling electric spot lights on their foreheads, and have a slightly greater advantage over the quarry, whose custom is to bask on the surface in the dark. While the tidal mudflats, owned by the Government, show no signs of worm depletion, vigilant Maine has an anti-poaching law with a $50 fine for out-of-Maine worm poachers. Unlike oyster beds which require occasional reseeding, Maine's worm muds seem inexhaustible. But Maine is taking no chances...
Russia's current tidal wave of treason charges, summary arrests and sudden death to even big Bolsheviks (TIME, Aug. 24 et seq.), surged up last week for the first time high enough to overwhelm even a president of a constituent republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics...
...eminent among the 200 or so Britons who held to the faith of Allah and his Prophet. A Westminster and Cambridge athlete who had written textbooks on boxing, he was a civil engineer, a road-builder in India, one of the world's authorities on wave and tidal action and the protection of foreshores. Whether on a Christian or Moslem impulse, Lord Headley during the War urged that ten interned Germans be put to death for every British child or woman killed by bombs. He made his pilgrimage to Mecca, earned the title "Al Haj" in addition...