Word: wave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...afternoon this month, before I address a 'master dinner' of Yale alumni in Manhattan at the official opening of Yale's latest $20,000,000 campaign, I am to address by radio all Yale alumni in the U. S. and also Europe. A 32.79-metre wave, it is expected, will make my plea for money heard by Yale men, idle and diligent alike, in London, Paris, Berlin, Venice, Cairo...
...apologia Colonel Lawrence writes finely in his preface: "They [the Arabs] were as unstable as water, and, like water would perhaps finally prevail. Since the dawn of life, in successive waves they had been dashing themselves against the coast of flesh. Each wave was broken, but, like the sea, wore away ever so little of the granite on which it failed. . . . One such wave (and not the least) I raised...
...Dreyfus case purported to be the trial of an army officer indicted for high treason; but a wave of anti-Semitism was then sweeping France, and the charge of treason served as but a thin screen behind which was fought another race and religious battle. Sacco and Vanzetti, seven years ago, were nominally tried for the murder of a paymaster and his guard; but a wave of reaction against radical notions of all kinds was at the time sweeping this country, and economic doctrines played an important part in the evidence submitted to a jury impanelled...
...mean much or nothing. To some, they will seem but flimsy foundations for the outbreak of war, but on just such frailties have wars been built. When once alight, the flame is hard to quench. Nothing could prove this more strikingly than the memories which this anniversary evokes. The wave of patriotism and of war-hysteria began in minor size, but, once started, it carried everything before...
...prize of $100 has been offered by the New York Evening Post to the college undergraduate who best explains the wave of mental depression apparently sweeping through American schools and colleges...