Word: waving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then he saw the sea outside Gloucester. Somebody had said something to the gods of wind and wave; they were in a fury. Salt spray was lashing over the deck, the bow dug through green water as it plowed along undecided whether to be a boat or a submarine. One sail had blown to shreds and he struggled to get up a trisail, a little handkerchief of a sail, in its stead. The din of the wind and the water dulled his hearing. Then he saw the wind and waves and water receding as be sneaked into Boston harbor...
Together with rumors circulating around Cambridge that Dick Harlow may turn out a football team this fall, a wave of "collegiatism" seems to have seeped into this stronghold of majestic indifference. Heading this sabotage on indifference is no loss a personage than Captain Charles (Champ) Hutter of the swimming team and Grand Marshal of the cheer-leading sextet...
...cars owned by students in the University were stolen and recovered in Cambridge yesterday in a minor crime wave that was quickly nipped by the police...
...clock: Here's the peak crowd--four hundred through in just over an hour. Watch these solicitors along the back of Memorial and on the sidewalk. The way they yell and wave paper at everyone coming out they look just like--"Pardon me, chum; but is this place being picketed?" Well, you might think so; but John L. Lewis' son enrolled at Princeton today instead...
When brokers cleared their desks fortnight ago, hustled out of town for the Labor Day weekend, the market had been falling steadily for three weeks. Supposedly it had fully discounted both war in China and a sudden wave of pessimism over fall business prospects. But the day sun-browned brokers returned from their holiday, a first-class European crisis burst on the front page. Apparently it caught Wall Street at a psychologically vulnerable moment. The market was thin, the selling persistent. Routed from its long rut, the trading volume soared to 1,870,000 shares, and at times the ticker...