Word: tides
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cornell must keep her weather eye on the fluctuations of undergraduate sentiment, so that she may bring the Honor System in on a tide so strong that no undercurrents can wreck its course. --Cornell...
With the conditions of labor unrest no more advanced today than they were at this time last year, and with the country becoming more involved with each new twist which the tide of industrial foment takes, careful analysis of the root of our inability to cope with the situation shows that dread reaction on the part of half the population renders any plausible suggestions proffered by the other half useless. The condition today is nearly identical with that in England just one hundred years ago, when, fearing the spread of the Jacobin doctrines of the French Revolution, reactionary feeling...
...remedy for this threatening tide of Bolshevism on the one hand, and the intrigues of autocracy on the other, Hoover holds forth the League of Nations, maintaining that--"Regardless of what any of us may think should have been the provisions of either the League or the Treaty, we and the world should not be kept waiting longer for settlement. The whole process of peace has been necessarily one of compromises, and so long as the final form gives us freedom of action and room for constructive development of peace I believe it should be accepted." R. J. BURNS...
...call for any definite program, and that its success means the undoing of much of the progress that has been made in collective bargaining. Whatever the mystery of the strike may be, the public knows that it is not receiving fair treatment; and the outlaw strikers, standing against the tide of public sentiment, have lost more than half the battle...
...with me Across the Sunset Tide" M. M. Smith...