Word: descent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rambling essay on democracy, British-French friendship, German aggression, which ends abruptly with a suggestion that only Poland bars Germany's path to the East. Typical Augur interpretation: Mussolini adopted anti-Semitism to make Italians racially conscious because he was horrified at the prospect of pickaninnies of Italian descent in Ethiopia...
Central figure appears to be a middle-aged Dubliner of Norwegian descent named H. C. Earwicker, once a postman, a shopkeeper, hotelkeeper, an employe of Guinness' Brewery. He is married to a woman named Maggie, and father of several children, but involved in some way with a girl named Anna. Earwicker has been mixed up in some drunken misdemeanor, his dreams are filled with fears of being caught by the police. He dreams that he is coming out of a pub with his pals; a crowd gathers; one of the revelers sings a song, but it turns into...
Before the plane began descending at 1,000 feet per minute (normal airline descent rate 300 f.p.m.), the passengers' masks were piped to a mixture of 20% oxygen, 80% helium and they experienced no ear pains. Passengers were told that ear plugging was due to failure of the ears to equalize inner and outer pressure in descent, that highly diffusible helium spreads more swiftly than air through the passages from nose to ears, keeps pressure reasonably even...
...June to November when the " 15-week sidewise move" began. A corresponding rise in TIME'S index of Business Conditions (see below) took place from March to August, when the TiMEline wavered, subsequently to reach a new peak on the first of the year, and then begin another descent (which has not yet indicated a reversal of the major uptrend). This in no way contradicts the sidewise movement of other indexes, for the TIME index reports not production but the relative soundness of business conditions. Since business activity has lagged several months behind the TIMEline, business activity...
Absurd as it was for a statesman of Semitic descent to promote antiSemitism, the discovery of Jewish blood provided the excuse rather than the reason for the Imredy resignation. The Premier was already on his way out. Leading politicians, the powerful Catholic Church, even some Cabinet colleagues were glad...