Word: tides
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Moody, strong in the back and weak in the head, has charged the people's champion, your Governor, and for a moment has appeared victorious. But the champion has only paused to catch her breath and she is back in the ring giving battle, and with the rising tide of outraged public opinion is winning a contest which will typify once more the triumph of brains and courage over youth and ignorance...
...Crapo Durant and Jesse L. Livermore. Because the market was under this speculative influence, there has been doubt as to the extent to which it has reflected the business condition of the country. In general, the U. S. is in excellent condition. Many industries are at the most prosperous tide of their histories. A few are at the turn of their...
...drink of chocolate. Miss Ederle ate some chicken. The band played Valencia. It was six o'clock and she could see the cliffs of Dover. She had been swimming for eleven hours. The water blackened fast. A squally rain whipped the broken seas that, running out with the tide, slapped her in the face. No hope of making Folkstone now. For two hours the current would run against her; she could not expect to make progress. It would take all her strength to keep from being carried back to France. Trainer Burgess began to whisper to "Pop" Ederle. Suddenly...
...everyone knows, Signor Mussolini's most robust hate obsession is inspired by a skulking fear that the blond Pan-German tide may some day engulf Italy as the Teutons engulfed Rome, by pouring down through the Brenner Pass. This lowest of the Trans-Alpine highways (4,495 ft.) is now held at its chief strategic points by Italy and constitutes one of her most passionately cherished spoils...
Adjutant telegraphers and telephonists interrupted momentarily the Kaiser's audience with his generals. The Imperial Chancellor, Prince Max of Baden was telephoning from Berlin. Local revolutions, prepared throughout Germany by the Independent Socialists had broken out at Kiel (Nov. 6), Hamburg, Cologne, Munich, Magdeburg, Dresden. ... At Berlin a tide of civilian workers and mutinous soldiers was milling through the streets. Prince Max demanded that the Kaiser abdicate. The populace, he declared, had been convinced by Allied propaganda that the Allies would never make peace with a Hohenzollern, would trample across Germany to Berlin...