Word: downward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lady. Then occurred the same mishap as befell Commander Settle and his stratosphere balloon over Chicago last fortnight. The valve refused to close again, down came the balloon. Aeronaut Harris dumped all ballast, threw overboard his own clothing and even his fiancee's. Still the balloon plunged downward. Grimly Harris kissed his companion goodbye, then jumped to his death, lightening the basket enough to save her life...
...General Electric bulb, also intended chiefly for highways, is equipped with a reflector resembling a "floppy bonnet" to concentrate the light downward, prevent it from being diffused in all directions. It consumes between 80 and 90 watts; its light output is equivalent to that of a Mazda lamp consuming 215 watts...
...equal to the emergency. To obviate the criticism that House members might be paying for privileges enjoyed by outsiders, a fee of ten dollars could be charged for the use of a House library. Clearly the situation must be avoided in the future through more cautious admission and downward revisions in rental scales, but these expedients would insure that the present overflow of innocent victims would not be seriously inconvenienced...
...large cellar which Armakeli had built; he had once said in one of his ecstatic moments that to die happily one had to be prostrate, with mouth opened and with a spout directly above the oral cavity so that the light iodine coloured wine which he made might trickle downward from a flagon. Modest but confident he had prognosticated to a skeptical people that the day would arrive when they would no longer laugh at his whimsicalities but praise his foresight; and the day had come. Armakeli's compatriots sang ubilantly...
...Mexico had the highest 1931 birth rate-28.4 per 1,000 population. Nevada had the lowest-13.2 per 1,000. New Mexico's rate has risen slightly the past several years. Contiguous Arizona has had no general downward trend. Both States have a large Mexican population...