Word: ebb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...occasion, the Forum group wrote to a number of Hollywood producers, asking them to participate in the program, "Are Movies Better than Ever?" With the celluloid industry at a rather low ebb, one producer mistook this for a jest and furiously referred to the Forum as "a juvenile organization that has nothing better to talk about...
With Crimson football tides continuing at a low ebb, both the Cadet Corps and the Cadet Band will be absent from the Harvard-Army game for the second consecutive year...
...nearly doubled their savings, and the price climb was expected to slow down. Early mornings and even Sundays were loud with the sound of carpenters' hammers as builders rushed new apartments to completion in the good weather. Personal income was the highest ever, unemployment at a postwar ebb. Nevertheless, at Chicago's Harbor Light on Skid Row, the Salvation Army began passing out overcoats, and drunks were jackrolled in the gutters for their clothes. The first leaves fell from the poplars and scuttered across the sidewalks. In the suburbs, there was the smell of burning leaves...
...Crimson was at the lowest ebb. In its football history when Jordan moved in. It has fashioned, respectively, one-and-eight and one-and-seven records over the last two seasons. And Jordan himself realizes that the end of the drought is not within immediate sight...
...pulled out of the Army, Navy and Air Force establishments to be used as trainers and administrators. So the Pentagon intends U.M.T. for some future day when & if standing forces can be eased back to the point (1,500,000) where they can be maintained entirely through the normal ebb & flow of enlistments. At such a point, the current draft would either be repealed or allowed to wither away...