Word: tides
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work, Professor Elmer S. Riggs of the Field Museum (Chicago), returned, bringing 800 fossils of 100 species of animals aged 8 to 15 million years. Most were taken from beds on the sea floor at the foot of towering cliffs, on the Santa Cruz coast. There the average tide-rise is 56 feet, and the work had to be done in dashes at the ebb. There was no evidence that the creatures found had had any communication by a land bridge with North America or any other continent. They formed a unique group of pre-Pleistocene fauna-giant ground sloths...
...anticipated in this year's Christmas goods. First, the blazing colors popularized in London for male attire promise to be outdone in America. Many males will probably be astonished at the color of shirts, cravats, socks, dressing-gowns and even suitings presented to him. Second, a huge tide of foreign goods is now being imported. Better and more German toys will be seen. Fine quality of European glass, stamped leather and silk novelties from England, France, Italy and Czecho-Slovakia are already arriving...
...mountain, which is topped by the stronghold village of Bribane, was enveloped by the smoke of burning crops and villages and the fumes of exploding shells. Armored cars and cavalry advanced up the easier slopes, while battalion after battalion of infantry stormed the steep western salient like a rising tide, preceded by a deadly, frothing foam of shrapnel...
...tide of immigration has flowed erratically upon the shores of the U. S. In the first decade and a half of this century, it swelled and swelled. Then came the War and it suddenly dropped to nothing. Then came peace and it rose to the flood only to be checked by the restrictive immigration law of 1921 and still more checked by the more limiting...
Last week the National Industrial Conference Board, Inc. made public statistics on immigration for the fiscal year ended last June?statistics which would seem to show, not only that the tide has been checked, but that it is diminishing in force...