Word: downward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Month. Sits alone; turns over when laid face downward; waves...
Terrestrial gravitation, acting unequally on unequal masses, may produce downward thrusts. But are there not forces beyond Earth causing upward thrusts? Professor Watts last week reminded his hearers that Earth is not alone in space but is clutched at by the gravitational pulls of its celestial companions...
Just before the Supreme Court killed off the Blue Eagle, the stockmarket pierced its long-established ceiling, shooting into new high ground for Recovery. With typical perversity, it shot downward even faster after the NRA decision. Some swift price-cutting developed but that merely served as a stiff shot in the arm for retail trade. Business as a whole kept a stable keel...
Taking the long view of trade prospects, most businessmen were frankly sanguine. NRAftermath jitters might deepen the current downward dip in the business curve but when recovery was resumed it would be broader and brighter. The stock-market relapse in any event was overdue after a two-month climb and was accelerated by the plight of the French franc (see p. 19). The fall in commodities was aggravated by President Roosevelt's gloomy forecast that wheat might drop to 36? per bu., cotton to 5? per lb. unless the Constitution were amended (see p. 11). And general uncertainty...
Just before an epileptic has a fit, a "larval explosion" of large surges occurs through his brain, three every second, producing 100 to 300 millionths of a volt each. The wave pattern is large, slow and evenly curved but cut by sharp downward strokes which perhaps reflect convulsions in the brain. During the depths of the epileptic fit, the characteristic long slow curves assume an unbroken S-shape...