Word: tiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miss Doris McLeod, on Thursday, Oct. 19, swam from the shore to the island and then around it. She started from pier 45 on the embarcadero, bucked the tide all the way out and half the way back and landed at the South End Rowing Club in two hours flat...
...commodity dollar, Wall Street chose to pull a face long enough to upset the day's trading and between the money changer and the moneychanger an unpleasant altercation threatens to develop. More significant than this, however, is the effect which the President's action must have on the growing tide of economic nationalism. A frank and cynical attempt by a great nation to jockey itself into a favorable agricultural market at the expense of its neighbors is a sad thing to see; fortunately M. Daladier's murmurings can no longer prevent France from leaving the gold standard, and so palliating...
...characteristic of Henry Ford and of his son that they should stand alone against the National Recovery tide. For they stood alone against much of that resounding system which made some kind of national recovery a necessity, against the growth of investment banking and the incubation of speculative enterprise. Indeed, there have been indications that they, alone of the mok-a-moks, perceived that vital contradiction which imperilled the economic organism in which their own success was hatched. Over seven years ago, when Henry Ford manufactured his ten millionth motor car, and the moguls of efficiency were prostrate in self...
...press had picked her up as a prodigy. Annie and Helen went north, lived for some years on "the capricious bounty of the wealthy." Then a fund was established; they settled down to get Helen through Radcliffe College. After the Radclifie degree was triumphantly won (cum la tide). Helen and Annie made a cinema (a commercial failure), wrote books and maga zine articles, went on the vaudeville stage, the lecture circuit. Wherever Helen went Annie went too. to guide, protect and interpret her. Even Annie's marriage in 1905 (to the late John Macy. Harvard instructor and critic) seemed...
...picnicking with my wife and 16-year-old son on Chatham Island. I observed a heavy wash coming down the Gulf [of Georgia] from the north. I thought at first it was just a tide rip. Then I was amazed to see huge coils come out of the top of the water like a snake. . . . The total length of these coils must have been at least 80 ft. and they were five feet thick, I should think. They came twisting out of the water so high that I could see light under them...