Word: descent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last of Mrs. Cheyney, varnished English comedies in straight descent from Oscar Wilde and Sir Arthur Wing Pinero wherein persons of title misbehaved in epigrams...
...leader stroke" starts from a negatively charged cloud toward the positively charged earth. The leader comes down by steps, dying out after each step, diving about 200 ft. farther with the next. Often 30 or 40 steps may be necessary before the ground is reached, but the whole descent occurs in 1/100 sec. or less. When the stepped leader reaches the ground, the main stroke, more powerful than the leader, shoots upward to the cloud along the path created by the downward steps. In general the McEachron crew confirmed Schonland's findings, but they discovered that in some instances...
...present slump in industrial production will be reached in the first half of next year, for operations have been curtailed so rapidly that in many lines we are already producing less than we are consuming. The recovery from that low point is bound to be much slower than the descent to it has been...
...small chapel atop the Kahlenberg. Mourned the Jewish-owned New York Times: "By his new marriage the Prince has sealed his fate as a possible leader of a compromise movement between clerico-fascism on the Italian model and pure German Naziism, since his bride is of Jewish descent...
...With portable seismographs, we will go down the 6000 foot hole and fire explosives at different levels along the descent. Then by making a series of observations at the surface of the giant hole we shall record the velocity of the sound in the layers which it penetrated. Finally we shall compare these velocities with those computed from ordinary surface measurements...