Word: tides
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tide of bloodcurdling abuse. Eventual changing of the subject. All over Germany similar scenes. The onetime Crown Prince reported to be giving away chocolate and small change to children near his estate at Oles. Quickening excitement. Suspense...
...stock poetical touches, but succeeded at last." Five versions of Leaves of Grass have been cast to wind, water and fire, after bitter hours of solitude in the lee of basaltic boulders on a sand-strewn promontory. The sixth version is stark flesh and marrow with life's tide flooding, pounding through...
...introduction of these elements into American higher education has occupied nearly a century. The increase in the number and the power of colleges, the immense sums raised for their maintenance, the overwhelming tide of students, the rapid turn in Faculty personnel, the incessantly expanding campus, the extending of the idea of going, to college to all classes of the commonwealth these and other improvements have made education a rather perplexing thing. Standards have been built up with enormous difficulty Weathering financial and other perils, the college has made its President a captain at the helm with complete power over...
While the grey, resistless German tide swept over Belgium, the banner of Imperial Germany flaunted black, white and red from the captured palace of Albert, King of the Belgians, at Brussels...
...When the tide ebbed from Belgium, engulfing Imperial Germany instead, the emerging German Republic took other colors: black, red and gold. Last week Germans were stirred to notable excitement when the Cabinet ordered that alongside the Republican standard there shall be flown by all German diplomatic and consular offices the Merchant Marine flag-a flag whose coloring is nine-tenths "imperial" and only one-tenth "republican...