Word: tides
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have been told that you publish an interesting house organ called TIDE; I will be pleased to have my name placed on your list...
...brother Vintila, and brother-in-law Prince Babu Stirbey (intimate of Queen Marie) control the State. They dominate Rumanian banking, oil, manufactures. Their large estates are worked by peasants in a manner all but feudal. Because they have used their power to systematically exploit Rumania, a tide of public indignation periodically rises, and before it M. Bratiano resigns the Premiership, announces that he has "retired," and proceeds to lie in wait...
Fourteen months ago such a tide of resentment was at the flood. It might have led King Ferdinand of Rumania on to better fortune for his dynasty, had he dared to brave Jon Bratiano then. Instead Ferdinand I, weak, invalided, accepted M. Bratiano's resignation as Premier without comment, and meekly called one of the Bratiano henchmen, General Fofoza Alexander Averescu, to the Premiership...
...problem of checking the rising tide of government expenditures has, in fact, become acute and requires the closest attention not merely from the standpoint of the Dawes plan, but in the interests of German economy as a whole...
Both respites are the results of strenuous workouts yesterday evening when the Crimson and Eli first eights had each a four-mile speed trial, the University oarsmen rowing down the course about one hour before their rivals. A tide favored the boat, as well as a light northwest wind...