Word: ebb
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...people seem to realize that, although industry is at a low ebb, it is nevertheless still a fact, and is dependent on the railroads for its existence, now as in good times. On these grounds, no one can deny that the credit which is being extended to the railroads by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation is being directed into the best possible channels...
...whose very economic existence depends upon free trade within itself, and substituted for it the three small states of modern Austria, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia; each of these has built up a tariff barrier of its own with the result that trade among those countries is at an extremely low ebb...
...Britain's] murderers are for the most part made up of poor devils who in some way have succumbed to the stress of life. ... In the United States the ebb of the Prohibition tide might even cause a situation far more desperate than its flow. You cannot throw some thousands of well-armed and ruthless criminals out of profitable employment with impunity...
...bull-session, once the undergraduate rendezvous for embryo-intellectual discussion, now having deterriorated into a general sex seminar, leaves little avenue for undergraduate acquaintance with matter of heterogenous importance other than a daily paper or magazine. The collegiate press has declined to a low ebb when it neglects such matters and conforms to such an apparent policy of provincialism.--D.C.S. Daily Tar Heel, University of North Carolina...
...faith has often succeeded where cold reason has feared to tread. Ireland, the home of the mystic Celt, and the fearsome Gael has always lured the adventurous. H. A. Jones is unquestionably adventurous. To have written plays during the 19th and 20th centuries with the drama at its lowest ebb, takes courage. To be mistaken for Eugene O'Neill or confused with the man who wrote "The Modern Woman's intelligent Guide to Socialism," the exact title of which, and the name of the Author, the Vagabond has momentarily forgotten, would try the mettle of greater men than even...