Word: bottomly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whirlpools of cooling, erupting gas on the sun, called sunspots, wax and wane in cycles of about eleven years, although some intervals have been as short as eight years, others as long as 16. In 1933 sunspot activity suddenly turned upward after languishing near the bottom of a cycle (TIME, Nov. 13, 1933). Since then sunspots have made much news, growing bigger and more frequent, disrupting transatlantic wireless communication and fostering brilliant displays of the aurora borealis. Astronomers looked forward to a peak of activity...
...opinion that sunspots may affect human psychology through such channels as vitamin intake, electrical effects on nerve impulses, electrified particles in the air. Hence, since business activity is "fundamentally a curve of mass psychology," sunspots may affect stockmarket prices and other indices of prosperity. From 1929 through the Depression bottom of 1932 to the highs of 1937, the correspondence between active sunspots and booming business has been remarkably close. Last week it was also seen that the July 1937 sunspot peak preceded the August market break by only a few weeks. Thus Depression II may be linked to the current...
Said President Roosevelt (on Federal aid for education) : "Our aid, for many reasons, financial and otherwise, must be confined to lifting the level at the bottom. . . . [On freedom] : When the clock of civilization can be turned back by burning libraries, by exiling scientists, artists, musicians, writers and teachers, by dispersing universities and by censoring news and literature and art, an added burden is placed upon those countries where the torch of free thought and free learning still burns bright. If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands, they must be made brighter...
...tunnel intended by 1940 to connect Manhattan Island with Long Island. Each 31 feet in diameter, the tubes are bored by great circular "shields." Like the mouth of a great pipe, the shield is forced ahead by hydraulic pressure, cutting two feet eight inches at each thrust into sub-bottom deposit. Between forward thrusts, workmen remove the muck within the shield, line each new section with cylindrical cast-iron casing. Keeping the river and its oozy bottom from rushing into the uncompleted tube is an air pressure of 28 pounds per square inch.* Air locks (pressure chambers) in concrete bulkheads...
...replaced later with a central Diesel for cruising, two light, air-cooled airplane engines for speed. Newfangled were Designer Fokker's automatic stabilizer, a vertical variable-pitch fin that works like a steerable centre board; and a stainless steel anchor that fits itself into the ship's bottom about 20 feet from...