Word: downward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...embrace of the Transcendentalists, the fashionable gentilities of the Lowells and Longfellows, the transient Utopianisms of the Alcotts, the dated rhetoric of his contemporaries. What moderns can see, what his contemporaries missed, is that Thoreau meant what he said. He was, he declared, a "Realometer," working his feet "downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice and tradition, and delusion, and appearance ... to a hard bottom...
Sept. 6: "It seems as though the sun could hardly shine upon a world where one man is able to speed civilization downward...
...successfully for years despite her precarious international position; had seen Poland grow from a small Baltic State to a power that had to be reckoned with in every ministry in Europe. Then one dawn over the Polish village of Puck a German aviator pulled his bomb release, and slanting downward through the greying light went the first missile of the war that meant the end of Poland...
Napoleon was not the first invader to come that way. Hannibal struck from the northwest and many times in the Middle Ages and Renaissance raiders poured through the funnel-like passes that widen and slope downward into Italy. In modern times no Army has invaded France from Italy, but although the Po and its tributaries form a series of defensive positions at which Italians could check invaders who penetrate the mountain barrier, at the western end of the valley lie Turin and, further east, Milan, Italy's chief industrial centres. If they should fall, Italy's war days...
...brother Irving has been doing trumpet work on and off--mostly off. Now definite word arrives that Harry is leaving to devote full time to his Pick-A-Rib joint on 52nd Street in New York, while brother Irving is just leaving. This is not to be considered a downward step, however, for both these two boys were considered two of the worst in the business, with Harry ranking well up in the corn bass division. Goodman has added Artie Bernstein, one of the most experienced and best of the bass men around, and has replaced Irving with Corky Cornelius...