Word: tides
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Howe sent all his eights out late this afternoon for their last hard work-out. The second University crew surprised the coaches by defeating Brown's eight in a mile race by a length in the excellent time of 4 minutes and 57 seconds with a favoring tide and wind...
...result was all the more surprising in view of the rather poor showing of the Junior crew yesterday, when in a two mile time trial with a following tide and a strong head wind the combination could do no beter than 11 minutes 32 seconds...
...this afternoon, and held a commanding position all the way down the course, crossing the finish line five lengths ahead in an impressive victory; the time was 20 minutes 54 seconds, considered very good despite the fact that the crews were aided by a following wind and a slight tide...
Such evidence is, of course, not all-conclusive, but it does indicate a turn in the tide. The "self-made man" of a generation ago, inevitably turning up in New York with a nickel in his pocket and emerging a "captain of industry," has passed off the stage along with the railroad empires of Harriman and Hill. That era was one of pioneer expansion, rapid transition, and adventurous growth; stimulating to speculation and the building up of great "get-rich-quick" fortunes by shrewd gamblers who rightly played their "hunches". In such a period the college...
...system proposes to erect superpower stations, some of them aggregating 400,000 horse power, to be erected at points near coal mines, on tide water and on navigable streams, supplemented by hydro-electric stations to be constructed within the zone and all to be connected by high tension transmission lines. By 1930 if such a procedure were followed, the annual economies effected as a result of substituting a high-powered, highly efficient system for our present inefficient one would be in excess of $500,000,000 in addition to a yearly saving of 50,000,000 tons of coal...