Word: tides
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tickets to a speculator, "the act, he knew, of a certain type of student designated by an obscene noun," if, I repeat you can believe our colleges are the scenes of such debauched revelry and licentious extravagance, you will have a hot half hour with "The Trun of the Tide...
...other reason than sheer physical limitations, the rush of American youth to the colleges that has been going on since the war could not keep up indefinitely. Reports of the numbers of new students entering universities for the past year reveal the fact that the tide has finally been checked. For the first time since the movement began, the rate of increase in enrollments is less than for the preceding year...
Several hypotheses are being considered to explain the phenomena which may be due to a combination of causes. Theoretically a small tide must take place in the earth's crust as the moon revolves about the earth. But from other considerations it is not thought that this can be sufficiently large to account for the observed effect. Professor Stetson is now considering the possible effect of a tidal wave in the earth's atmosphere caused by the moon which may alter the apparent direction of the ray of light from a star and produce the effect noted. The most direct...
...Chan-Chan. Here glowed the prehistoric splendor of the Chimu Empire, long, long before the great Imperial civilization of the Incas rose, to be conquered in later turn by Renaissance Spain. After three centuries of Spanish rule-galleons, slaves and sweated gold-romance in Peru was still at full tide. Only then came Simon Bolivar-hero of a continent-to end the Spanish rule of South America where it began, in Lima. In consequence Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Hoover can visit no South American capital whatsoever without finding, in some especially public place, a statue of BOLIVAR. Though born a Venezuelan...
...Hoover, unpacking, cast a bright eye on his new-bought kit of deep-sea fishing tackle. Watching the lazy Pacific swells some of his first thoughts were about the monster sailfish, amber-jacks, tuna, wahoos, crevalles and yellowtails that live off the coast of Lower California and in the tide-rips from there to Chile...