Word: undertows
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...Committee which was obliged to amuse the delegates to the Democratic Convention for more than two weeks, plunged into the surf in front of his villa at Palm Beach. He emerged some minutes later firmly grasping the half-drowned Maxine Elliott-his guest who had been overcome by an undertow...
...times has served as a bridge for the crossing of western civilization to Asia will now, while in the hands of a powerful and fanatical Turkey, become an impenetrable wall, blocking the passage of progress and civilization to the east. Someone has said that the Turks always constitute the undertow to every tide of civilization. History has proven this, and it will be repeated if the Turks are not kept out of non-Turkish territories...
Joseph deWolfe Hamlin '16, of Haverhill, was drowned last summer on August 16, while bathing at Seabrcok Beach. N. H. A. strong undertow which carried him out of reach of help was responsible for the accident. Hamlin prepared at the Bordentown Military Institute in New Jersey. In his first year here he distinguished himself as a scholar of high rank, procuring...