Word: tiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dated from New Year's Day 1926, when the University of Washington, Pacific Coast Conference champion, invited what it considered the best team in the U. S. (outside the Conference) to play in Pasadena's Tournament of Roses game. That was Alabama's Crimson Tide which in one of the most exciting second halves in Rose Bowl history won Coach Wade his first 20-to-19 victory...
...fast-forming forward line turned the tide in the Business School game, as the Lord Jeff's overcame Coach Jack Carr's physically weakened fullbacks. A knee injury forced Joe Bradley out in the first period...
...hopes for Localism to prove a barrier to the tide of Centralization in the coming years through a reform of the condition of local government...
...constantly being magnified and then challenged by students and by those who would tear down its precepts. Politicians of the boom-and-bellow school still mouth its apt passages as reason for, or argument against, their platforms. Men, worthy and unworthy, have been swept into office on the tide of such biblical quotations...
...While the famine lasted. 21,770 people died of starvation, the total Irish mortality for the five years that ended in 1851 was close upon a million. The two most important results were: a desperate stiffening of the rebelliousness already inflamed by Wolfe Tone. Emmet, O'Connell; a tide of emigration, chiefly to the U. S., that in the next 50 years cut Ireland's population of 8,000,000 in half...