Word: tiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Terminal's procedure was to pay out 2,000 ft. of cable with Hansen in "Eleanor" at the end, then drag him along against the swirling tide. Though the depth was never more than 112 ft., Hansen thought it the nastiest job of his career, said he was bumped against rocks and whirled around until he was groggy. By week's end he had encountered six drowned hulks, identified none as the Hussar. But Diver Hansen appraised as practically nil the chances of the rival Josephine, whose backers remained anonymous last week. Wearing ordinary diving-suits, the Josephine...
Large, handsome, healthy and vigorous, Viscountess Rhondda at 51 is chairman of seven companies, director of 24 others dealing in iron, steel, coal, shipping, newspapers. As her chief occupation she regards the editorship of Time & Tide, which she founded as a feminist weekly and which still employs only women in the office. Only child of the late David Alfred Thomas, Welch "coal king," she inherited his vast business interests, his title, his amazing vitality. As Lady Mackworth (she is divorced from Sir Humphrey Mackworth) she went to jail and hunger-struck in the Pankhurst campaign for women's suffrage...
Preliminary reports from New England institutions do not confirm the optimistic dispatch from Chicago that "a sharply rising tide of students flooded the colleges and universities, during September." Enrolments hereabout are virtually what they were in 1933. Some colleges have had slight increases, others small losses. Nowhere is there visible the average gain of 10 per cent reported in the West...
...late great Dr. Frank Billings of Chicago persuaded the doctors of the world that focal infections were often the cause of systemic diseases like rheumatism, arthritis, heart disease, kidney disease. Immediately there followed a great wave of tooth-pulling, tonsil-snaring, adenoid-raking, sinus-reaming. The tide, however, had turned before Dr. Billings died two years ago, and last week was in full retreat as the American Academy of Ophthalmology & Otolaryngology met in Chicago...
...spite of the ballyhoo about the careful in difference of Harvard undergraduates in spite of the growing demands of tutors, and what not, in spite of wind, weather and tide there are usually a couple of fellows coming back to college every year who want to know what the football team is doing, what it's done already and what sort of play they're going to have to endure this fall in the stadium...