Word: tiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years of teaching experience, and over thirty percent are enrolled in graduate school study, seems to be one of the principal reasons for this unfortunate situation. Thus the University seems to be bent on crucifying the Freshman Class on the standards of Graduate School students, who need employment to tide them over their early years. If the administration continues to thus sacrifice its undergraduates by neglecting to improve the instruction given in its elementary courses, it is playing a dangerous game of drakes and ducks with its own future, and the future of the men that it is supposed...
...Basques fought grimly on last week, but fought a losing battle. City defenders were cheered mightily when two companies of Basques with a single anti-tank gun and a barrier of three logs was able to put to flight a group of 18 Italian tanks, but in general the tide was against them. Basque lines were forced back to the third ring of steel and concrete trenches defending Bilbao. A key to the city was pine-covered Mount Solluve which commands the entrance to Bilbao harbor. Planes, dropping the same incendiary bombs that destroyed Guernica (TIME, May 10), set fire...
...thinks that shipping, not selling, is what embroiled the U. S. in the War. When the great peace tide set in two years ago and extremists began talking of slamming trade doors tight shut against another war, he suggested cash & carry as an alternative. Contemptuously, brilliant "Bernie" Baruch calls his cash & carry principle "scuttle & run." He wants peace, but his real idea of how to keep it is to have the U. S. so well-prepared to fight that no nation will dare to antagonize it. No man knows better than the onetime chairman of the War Industries Board that...
...brilliant playing of Ogilvy finally turned the tide in the last doubles match. Playing steadily, Captain Fuld and Dorson showed good fight in coming back after singles defeats...
...week that he had overheard this conversation in a hotel two years ago, during a U. M. W. drive to organize Harlan County's miners. That drive failed, as union attempts to get a foothold in "Bloody Harlan" have always failed. But last week there was a new tide in Harlan history, and the feudal sway of Capital over one of the world's richest bituminous coal fields seemed about to end. U. M. W. had put 20 organizers in the field on the heels of the Supreme Court's validation of the Wagner...