Word: tides
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blow was not destined to fall, for General Diaz, using the slight reserve force available to him, turned back the attack at the psychological moment, and within a week, had sent his enemies flooding north in the full tide of retreat...
History, we are told, has a habit of repeating itself. The conquered Prussians, by means of an apparently harmless system of military training, were able to put on the field at Waterloo a force of men that turned the tide against Napoleon; today, "The Reichstag has voted a law to establish universally courses in physical training, lasting from one to two years, for all young men under twenty-five. Under an inoffensive name it has in reality created a complete system of intensive military training." The comparison is obvious...
Chicago registered eighteen first downs to three by Princeton, and even when Garrity, veteran Princeton half, was sent in to try and stem the tide, the Tiger attack pierced the powerful Maroon defence for only a scant fourteen yards...
...endured, and for all that has been suffered since and will be for years to come, lies not only with those who taught that doctrine and those who acted upon it, but also with those multitudes of great and small who accepted it and by so doing swelled the tide of popular opinion that made the war possible. Observe, I am not expressing an opinion on any of these questions. In this place it would hardly be proper for me to do so. I am merely seeking to insist upon the responsibility of every man for his opinions by pointing...
...then being raised to twenty-nine and so on. The crew was paced for the entire distance by the Crimson seconds, who kept even with the first boat, with a stroke about two points higher. The weather conditions were rather unfavorable, for although there was a following wind and tide, the water,-especially the last two miles, was very rough. The time for the four miles was 20 minutes 25 seconds, quite creditable in view of the fact that the stroke, essentially a paddle, was never high. In the last quarter-mile the crews were brought even by lowering...