Word: tides
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...game last year was very closely fought, the absence of Lamont and Eldridge from the Crimson forward line and the Green's superiority at dribbling, turning the tide. Tomorrow, with the entire team in playing condition, Coach Welch's men will probably give a much better account of themselves...
Congestion in the Southern District of New York was to be expected because of the volume of commercial litigation in Manhattan. District Judges from California, Kansas, Nebraska, Illinois, Alabama, New Jersey and other states have been sent there to stem the rising tide of cases on the docket, but to no avail...
...America the tide has steadily set toward what may be termed the democratizing of higher education. Democratizing means always materializing and commercializing; it means the rush for business, for mere money making...
Many Americans resent the French doctrine of Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité, when applied to Negroes. Several disagreeable incidents have occured when the tourists have strenuously objected to the rising tide of color in Montmartre...
There has been these last few months a barely discernible turn of the tide. Romeyne Park Benjamin, The Jitney Players (mostly college graduates), Oliver Harriman (Princeton) have cast their lots with the actors. Possibly none of them will succeed John Barrymore; yet their example in forcing the national stage door against the dead weight of convention is invaluable. Young men of less position but with more temperament may be aroused to follow their inclinations through the door thus opened...