Word: tides
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Original feeling in the Saltonstall group favored non-utilitarian possibilities. It was the active campaign of younger Alumni, led by Daniel P. S. Paul '46 and his present active "Committee for a Memorial Activities Center," which was generally credited with turning the tide...
...setting-forward of His reign on earth . . . This is an hour of testing and peril for the Church, no less than for the world. But it is the hour of God's call to the Church . . . For those who have eyes to see, there are signs that the tide of faith is beginning to come...
...spring tide, 1,364,000,000 gallons of sea water poured in, flooding the island's 45,000 acres. By November the island was cleared of the enemy, but the sea water had washed between trees and over hedges, slapped against the wallpaper in the lower rooms of houses, carried away chairs and cradles...
...People's Choice. In Battle Creek, William Casey turned the tide in his campaign to get Sylvia Shore to marry him: he presented her with a petition signed by 250 fellow citizens...
Could any President have done more than Hoover did to turn back the economic tide? Those who remembered Hoover's ineffectual insistence that prosperity was just around the corner might still wonder. Whatever the causes of the depression, to them Hoover remained its perfect symbol. But the concession was enough to send New York Times Pundit Arthur Krock into fits of dignified glee. Crowed Krock: "A sweeping verdict of 'not guilty,' by this particular juror . . . must have astonished Herbert Hoover more than anything in years...