Word: tides
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...another destroyer a different method is being used. Cables are attached to the sunken vessel and to floating barges. When the tide goes out, the cables are tightened; the incoming tide then lifts the barges and the vessel together. The whole group is thereupon towed into shallower water until the sunken vessel grounds-and the process is repeated. Needless to say, this is slow work...
...were. He put for shore, got out, ran inland Meanwhile I landed, went to the store for provisions. A crowd had gathered. It seemed that the man from the boat had told a story of heard seeing a it go buoy 'puff, going puff, against puff,' the tide, smelled sulphur. Then the devil had come out of the smokestack ! "On these early boats, three white mice were members of every crew - to detect gas. When they keeled over it was time to come...
Eight thousand pitiless brewery workers went on strike in Berlin whose populace became exposed to a beer famine. Frantic efforts were made by cafe, restaurant and beer hall proprietors to secure large quantities of Miinchner and Wurzburger from Bavaria and elsewhere to tide their beer-drinkers over tha crisis...
When the Morgan residence at Madison Ave. and 36th St., Manhattan, was built, the neighboring Murray Hill district was purely residential. Gradually the tide of shops and offices from downtown began to climb the hill. Mr. Morgan, however, liked his home and saw no reason why he should abandon it to the builders of business blocks. Backed by the Murray Hill Association consisting of other residents of the district, he strove to have business building on that part of Madison Ave. restricted. In this he was mainly successful, and a "residential zone" was created bounded by Madison Ave., 35th...
...acquiring a reading and writing knowledge of English are widely available; school attendance is compulsory for a number of years in every state; extension courses are offered by most metropolitan universities; the Y. M. C. A. and Americanization bureaus conduct innumerable elementary courses. At the same time the tide of illiterates which once came from Europe has been checked by law. What is now necessary is apparently a broadcasting of an appeal to make use of these facilities. The arguments against illiteracy are sufficiently convincing if only they are placed emphatically before illiterates. A shifting of some of the present...