Word: ebbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...EBB A. POUNDS Sacramento, Calif...
...just too damned much work. But the Truman thing seemed so important, and then they all wanted me to do the second." A good mural, Benton feels, "must have a world of depth into which you can move. That kind of art is at a low ebb. Ages ago, artists were in demand to make images of a people's God. The artist was a necessity, even though he might have been a slave. His work status was high, but his social status was low. Today the artist has a higher social status, but fewer jobs...
...order to restrain these "rakes and blades" the first college clubs were founded. Formed in 1728, the Philomusarian Club declared in its preamble that "whereas Conversation, which is the Basis of Friendship The fundamental Principle of Society ... Is now at A Very Low Ebb ... Vice and Folly Are In Their Zenith.... And whereas Vice is Now become Alamode and Rant Riot and Excess is Accounted The Height of Good Breeding and Learning--In Order Therefore to Stem That Monstrous Tide of Impiety and Ignorance," the Philomusarian Club is formed. Seven of the ten organizers became ministers...
...result, the Dwight Eisenhower who led the Republican Party to power in 1952 saw the G.O.P. sink to its lowest ebb (see map) in decades this year. And perhaps the most significant effect of the 1958 election was that for all practical purposes, it ended the Eisenhower Crusade. President Eisenhower had failed in the task of remolding his party in his own winning image. Because of that failure, for the rest of his term he would have to fight hard merely to keep his accomplishments from being rolled back...
...Year's Day, 1920, was to be the high-water mark. The tide began to ebb...