Word: tiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young friends, both fond of fishing & sailing, stood on New Brunswick's Campobello Island and looked across the water. They saw the 20-ft. tide of the Bay of Fundy seethe and storm between the rocky islands on the border between Maine and Canada, flooding the basins of Cobscook and Passamaquoddy Bays. One of the men was a promising young engineer named Dexter Parshall Cooper. His youthful companion, a rising young politician, was Franklin D. Roosevelt. Engineer Cooper explained a great dream of his: to throw a string of dams between the islands, harness that galloping tide to make...
...quarters are officially uninstructed. Of the 1,001 delegates who will eventually assemble at the convention it is certain that the great majority, despite private commitments, will not be under official instructions from their party at home. Therefore they should be swung with relative ease in any direction the tide runs strongest...
...summary action taken by President Roosevelt in abandoning the Passamaquoddy tide-harnessing project and the Florida ship canal would seem to smack more strongly of political expediency than of any impelling reason for their desertion. Even though it be acknowledged that the Florida project was a flagrant instance of boon-doggling, necessitated by the need of spending so much money within a given time and within such and such a place, the "Quoddy" project has been praised by engineers and might possibly have been developed on a scale with the Boulder Dam, Grande Coulce and other highly successful New Deal...
...tide of future popularity seems to be rushing toward sociology, and the Sociology Department must be prepared to meet it. Aside from reconditioning the elementary course, the Division should survey its own construction with an eye to strengthening itself...
...Premier Koki Hirota had meanwhile announced after the first meeting of his Cabinet that it stands for ''positive and independent readjustment of the international situation to tide over the emergency situation." At this a War Office spokesman hailed "the Spirit of Hirota," and a Foreign Office statesman explained, ''It means that we are an independent country - not a protectorate...