Word: tides
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years a tide of U. S. students, recipients of the 96 scholarships established by Cecil John Rhodes, have invaded already cosmopolitan Oxford. Some two years ago Mrs. Henry P. Davison, widow of the onetime Chairman of the American Red Cross, modestly endeavored to create a reciprocal tide, established six scholarships, two each at Yale, Harvard, Princeton, for recipients to be sent (three each) from Oxford and Cambridge...
...work." Along the Pacific Coast one occasionally sees a battery of barrels or floating cylinders sapping a mite of Ocean's strength as they are slid up and down on ratchets by the incoming rollers. There are still visible along the Atlantic Coast, relics of crude paddle-wheel tide mills, which worked only with the falling tides and kept their operators up at annoying hours as the tide changed its time of fluctuation daily...
...into an upper pool. Other walls would immure Cobscook, the lower bay, 50 sq. mi. more. Across the inlet between the two pools thus formed, from Eastport* (island) to the Maine mainland, a dam and power house would be built. Operation would be as follows: on a rising tide, the gates to the upper pool would be opened to admit the sea. At flood, the gates would close. No water from the sea would ever enter the lower pool, its gates being opened only when its contents were above sea level. Thus there would be maintained a continuous fall...
...took him an hour. The tide turned. He was swimming now with the dreadful automatonism of exhaustion. Boats scurried out from the shore to meet him; cheery British voices hailed him for his triumph. He would make it now, right enough. Gad, he was only a half-mile from shore. But the swimmer turned upon his encouragers eyes darkened and guttering. He was a lost man now, though they did not know it; he was drowned head and heel in black water, the fathomless seas of fatigue. The tide set its knee in his chest and pushed him back toward...
...athlete? Mile. Sion determined to try again. Accompanied by a tug which contained, among others, Rival Harrison, she took off for Dover in the bright morning. Six hours after her start she was only nine miles from the pale cliffs. But against her, also, the tide turned; the undertow clutched at her thighs; the chill of the seas began to penetrate her courage. Once she was 1¼% miles from shore-the nearest that any woman has come to achieving the exploit, but at length, unable to make progress, she was picked up, and her tug chugged back toward France...