Word: downs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Climax of the evening came when the temple-dancers forgot about the temple, and swung out in a lowbrow song & dance from modern Bali, accompanying themselves with corny, Hawaiian-style music on a steel guitar and a couple of mandolins. Though purists complained it was not according to the Sanskrit...
*Standard machine to test hearing is the audiometer, a phonograph-like device with earphones instead of an amplifier. When records are played, with varying sound intensities, subjects write down what they hear. With an adequate number of earphones, an audiometer can test the hearing ranges of a classroomful of children...
An agonizing stab in the shoulder, a strangling sensation in the throat, lightning pains down the left arm, a drenching sweat, a cold grey face-over it all an "indescribable feeling of anguish and a sense of imminent dissolution angor animi." This is the classic picture of the dread angina...
But August 1939, when total U. S. power production was up about 10% over August 1938, hydro production was down 8%, and steam plants had to plug into hydro's distribution outlets to stave off a power famine. August steam plant output jumped 21%. September told a similar story...
Principal surprise was that when gross operating revenue humped sharply (18.3%) since last year, expenses were kept down so well that nearly all of the increase in revenue was brought down to net operating income. Typical of this policy was New York Central, whose gross jumped $5,900,000 (from...