Word: wakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...height of yesterday's student melee, camp followers in the wake of the undergraduate Storm Troopers were treated to several humorous incidents as follows...
...whether a student picks a course because it is supposed to be easy, because it meets at a convenient time, because he thinks he is a good friend of the instructor, because it meets in the same room as his preceding class and he will not have to wake up to change classes, or because its examination comes at a convenient date, he will have a well thought out and serious reason for taking it when he confronts his tutor today or tomorrow for his signature on the study card, which must be field in University Hall...
...University of Washington and pointed his snug, white, 32-foot ketch Idle Hour out of Puget Sound. Before him lay the glamorous uncertainty of the western horizon; behind, Foulweather Bluff and the fouler prospects of graduating into a depression. One afternoon last week, with 35,000 miles in her wake and her bows scoured with the spray of more than seven seas. Idle Hour breezed in from the blue Atlantic and hove to off Manhattan's Battery wall. At her helm was no pessimistic college senior, but a persuasive, soft-spoken yarn spinner who had ridden out a depression...
...wake of the Panic of 1857, "that nest of gamblers the Brokers' Board" (socalled by a Manhattan newspaper seeking to fix responsibility for the financial chaos) met one day to elect a new president. The jittery board finally picked the one man they thought could steer them out of trouble-Henry George Stebbins, a skilled yachtsman who later became commodore of the New York Yacht Club. Under President Stebbins the New York Stock Exchange weathered the Panic, headed for the dazzling days of the Civil War boom...
...poets' wives. On the night Molly is sure Henry intends to leave with the sea gypsy, she determines on a desperate last defense: a diversion of the sea gypsy's attention to herself. The sea gypsy accepts, and the next morning her body is found in the wake of the storm to which she surrendered...