Word: tidal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...common impulse that moves among great masses of people at the same moment and guides their actions with a finality that is beyond the ordering of governments. There was such a time when millions of Europeans of all faiths and nationalities moved to the New World in a great tidal wave of humanity. There was such a time when the West was settled and thousands of emigrants swept over the Oregon Trail...
Kaishek, in the catholic nature of Chinese thought. It is in the heritage of a people "ardent with desire to rebuild their country," a desire with the force of "a tidal wave which will absorb the energies of our people for a century. . . ." It is as clear and tangible as the potential power of the Yangtze, the Great River, that roars through the gorges below the city, falling 16,000 feet from the Kunlun Ranges, while the millions who live beside it work through their brief years in ignorance of the power and light it might bring them...
...capital. For three days & nights he churned and paddled-past San Pedro, past Baradero, past Uriburu, past Campana. At each river town he was greeted with crowds eager to cheer on their beloved "Shark of Quilla Creek." At Point San Ysidro, only twelve miles from Buenos Aires, the upstream tidal current began to force him back. After two futile hours, Pedro Candioti gave up. When he was hauled out of the river he instantly fell fast asleep. Pedro was not as young as he was: he had been in the water only 74 ½ hours. Once he had managed...
...would have been all right if all we had to create was ripple, but it's turning into quite a tidal wave, and if we don't watch out we're going to be washed ashore. RIPTIDE's the name of the mimeographed paper put out each week or so for the WAVES at Radcliffe, so that this column is in a sense a digest of that, neatly trimmed at the edges and censored to meet, the less tolerant gaze of our male confreres...
That the surface of the earth itself may be subject to tides like those of the ocean has long seemed probable,* but there has been no tidal gauge to measure these heavings accurately. At the University of Texas last fortnight a gravitimeter was announced which indicates a daily tidal movement of the solid earth at Austin amounting to two or three inches-larger than ever suspected...