Word: tides
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sophomore class there was decided objection to the plan: out of every twelve voting, seven opposed it and five favored it. In the Junior class this margin was reduced, since in every eleven voting, six were against it and five were for it. But in the Senior class the tide turned in favor of the plan: out of every nine voting, five approved the plan and four disapproved...
...stem this tide of preciousness and plan...
...Elizabeth appears but fitfully in the text?surrounded by a muster roll of courtiers with the subsequently decapitated Essex at the head. The reader is inclined to "retch" at the Queen's paint-plastered face, stinking breath and blackened teeth?since he is never made to feel the rich tide of power that swelled in Bess...
...Thames is a most messy river at the point (between Putney and Barnes) where it is still customary to hold these annual races. But this day it was calm, at least not torn with tide-rips as it was last year when the Oxford shell water-logged and sank. And one's family could get a halfway decent look at the show this year, for it was held in the morning before the plebs were turned loose from the factories to swarm the banks and rowdy on the bridgeheads...
...days of the pre-civil war period southern plantations were everywhere famous as centers of cultured, cavalier life. Remote traces of this somehow managed to survive the evils of reconstruction. The last twenty-five years have, however, threatened to destroy the few remaining vestiges of this life. The rising tide of commercial prosperity in which all classes shared and the recent influx of speculating northerners suggested the possibility of this region becoming a veritable slough of Babbittry, rivaling even the Middle West in wide-spread vulgarity. Such a condition seemed imminent in the absence of an effective counteracting influence...