Word: downwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...points. Round after round he does most of the moving, most of the punching. But it is not an altogether convincing performance. He throws too many punches and lands too few. Turpin seems to be pacing himself better. Although his right, with which he often leads, is a clumsy downward punch, his left is straight, hard, and quick. Several times Robinson's head snaps back from it: Both noses are red. In the third Robinson hits Turpin three times in the gut. In the seventh he starts at the waist at close range and bombards the body and head with...
...points. Round after round he does most of the moving, most of the punching. But it is not an altogether convincing performance. He throws too many punches and lands too few. Turpin seems to be pacing himself better. Although his right, with which he often leads is a clumsy downward punch, his left is straight, hard, and quick. Several times Robinson's head snaps back from it. Both noses are red. In the third Robinson hits Turpin three times in the gut. In the seventh he starts at the waist at close range and bombards the body and head with...
Thus the market confounded both the bears and the financial soothsayers who had thought that the summer slump would give it a permanent downward push. Actually the market never got below June's low of 242.64, and has climbed 27 points since...
...Southern California, Dr. Carl L. Hubbs of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography was having good fishing with a new kind of deep-sea trawl. Its mouth is held open by a broad, V-shaped steel beam that acts like an airplane wing in reverse, making the net dive downward while giving it unusual stability. It can be towed at six knots, instead of the two knots which is top speed for ordinary trawls...
After World War II, says Gartlein, the sunspot cycle turned upward, reaching its peak in the winter of 1948-49. That was a time of troubles in the electrical world, when the sunspots' pesky particles disrupted communications for entire days. Then the cycle turned downward again. In the fall of 1950, the sun showed an almost spotless face for the first time in six years. The bottom of the cycle will be reached in 1954. So, says Dr. Gartlein, the U.S. and its friends (who are more electrical-minded than the Reds) will have the sun's help...