Word: tiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baldwin, however, ebb tide seemed overlong. From 1930, its last profitable year, to 1935, the company's annual losses piled up to $19,700,000. In 1935 business began to improve a little, but Baldwin's management, despite the fact that the company still had an apparent surplus of $37,000,000 in assets over liabilities, petitioned for a 776 reorganization. Reason was that Baldwin's $712,000 cash on hand was less than half what would be necessary to meet obligations of $1,438,000 due in 1935. Baldwin's tall, impassive President George Harrison...
...admiration. As you have heard, the Puritans' ambition was none other than to transplant to an untamed forest the ancient university tradition. They would be satisfied with nothing short of duplicating here in New England at least one college of Cambridge University. Carried forward by the 'strong tide of Puritanism, the enterprise was at first blessed with almost miraculous success. The goal might well seem to be in sight when, within twenty years of the founding, Oxford and Cambridge (then in the hands of dissenters, to be sure) recognized the Harvard degree as equivalent to their own. But many changes...
...deep is the Charles River? What's a good movie to see? When does the next train for Portland leave? When is the tide high this afternoon? How long does it take to drive to Providence? Where are the glass flowers...
...this industry is given encouragement, we can look to it to be of great help to us if, when the republic is proclaimed, we should lose some or all of our trade privileges. The industry will then tide us over until we can develop new markets or build new industries...
...night before I met Commodore MacFarlane, I set sail from what is now the San Francisco Yacht Harbor for Sausalito. In mid-channel the wind dropped and with a strong ebb: tide we drifted out through the Golden Gate. In those days, as many of the old-timers will remember, we had no auxiliary power, as sailors, men of the old school felt they could put their vessels into most any place they desired under their own sail by the old fashioned method known as "jayhawking." Drifting through the Gate a dense fog came in and I suggested...