Word: tides
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coming, as it does, at this period of political unrest in the British Empire, the election acquires a far-reaching significance. The general restlessness among the various Dominions had reached a turning point; General Smuts' reelection has definitely swung the tide and has furnished an example of loyalty which will be widely imitated. General Smuts and South Africa were little known before 1914. They gained the admiration of the world during the was and they have now added even more to this feeling of respect...
...tide seems to be turning at last. Out of the chaos in Russia there is one group of men who have the power to gather together the stray ends of opposition, to unify the disorganized but widespread resistance to the Soviets. This is the Constituent Assembly, duty elected by universal suffrage to represent all-Russia and dissolved three years ago by the Bolsheviki when they set up by force their military regime. Former Premier Kerensky has issued a manifesto calling a hundred members to a conference in Paris "to devise ways and means for the defense of the honor...
...newsstands. Whether the devoted reader of "Popular Mechanics" who has for years compounded folding beds out of hen houses by following the directions in his favorite periodical, will be equally content, is another question, but surely in the intervals of his labors he may enjoy the full tide of Lampoon punning, alliteration, and nonsense. Nonsense it is, of course, but of the sort that might beneficially be made prescribed reading for many...
...race started with conditions almost perfect, the tide running in, but at the half-way mark the crews ran into slack water and therefore made the time 23 minutes 11 seconds for the whole race, the slowest in many years. The race was as hard-fought as any ever seen on the river, with the University leading at the two-mile mark by five seconds, and at the three-mile mark by only six seconds...
...mile course, during which the Freshman crew paced for the first two miles and the Seconds the last two. The time of the University boat was 21 minutes and 52 seconds. The conditions of the course were not very good; although the crews were favored by a moderately falling tide. There was an adverse wind, which in the last part of the course stirred up quite a choppy sea and hampered the men considerably. The 1923 oarsmen led the first eight by a length over the first two miles, while the first eight led the Seconds by a similar distance...