Word: depressants
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...given place to the view that if the pupils don't like it, they shouldn't be required to do it. ... The underlying assumption seems to be ... that students will write clearly and correctly by some sort of blessed intuition if only the teacher does not depress them with such inconvenient and unprofitable matters as spelling, paragraphing, punctuation, sentence structure, grammar and the choice and order of words...
...Muscovites love their city. They talk a lot about it. It seemed to depress them that I should see it sandbagged and packed up for war, even the lights in its subways dimmed. They seemed to think it wasn't fair of me to look at it and judge it when it was not at its best...
Stock traders divide their December attention between the year-end dividend crop and their March 15 income-tax returns. Last week sales for tax purposes weighed heavily on the New York Stock Exchange, helped depress it still further...
...last year, intellectual tension is now at the breaking point between President Alan Gottlieb's pro-aid-to-Britain, pro-Roosevelt group, and the Marx-Stange faction favoring no aid to Britain and branding Roosevelt as a war-monger. Inevitably the break will weaken the HSU, and tend to depress still further the strong but gradually waning student sentiment for keeping America out of war. This is too bad, and everything possible should be done to keep the effect from being too demoralizing...
Meanwhile many a builder and architect (but nary a N. A. B. 0. M.-er) wondered whether Pittsburgh and Scranton, Pa. did not have the right idea in taxing land at twice the rate of property improvements. This tax tends to depress price of vacant land, make it readily available to builders. Early this spring, Scranton had taken title to 6,000 unsalable, tax-delinquent properties, hoped to make up for its tax losses by renting them itself...