Word: nadir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spain, considering her size, has always represented the nadir of news value among European countries but it was only necessary for her to descend into the same sort of social disorder and barbaric cruelty as constitute my facts about Venezuelan political history to achieve front-page spreads in every newspaper...
...Christian Smuts's career were graphed it would look like a broker's nightmare. He has been a lawyer, a politician, a soldier, a rebel, a turncoat, a philosopher, a diplomat. Among his own countrymen he has touched the nadir and the zenith of popularity. During the Boer War the British pursued him with blood in their eye; in the World War they made him a general. Smuts has attracted more hatred from varying sources than any man in South Africa. But through all his ups & downs he has kept the quiet consciousness of duty done. Volume...
...nadir of cold called Absolute Zero exists not as a reality of nature but as a textbook definition, as a goal which haunts the minds of low-temperature researchers and which they do not expect to attain. Cold is the absence of heat. Heat is molecular activity. Thus Absolute Zero is the point at which the molecules that compose matter would lie like heaps of corpses in rigid juxtaposition. Physicists locate Absolute Zero at -273.13° Centigrade...
...Nadir of Disrepute...
...holders of utility stocks should be heartened by the acquittal yesterday of Sam Insull, hounded by a vengeful government in every far corner of the world, only to be hailed "not guilty" by the courts. This verdict following on the heels of the recent Tennessee pronouncements may mark the nadir of utility disrepute. Perhaps the majority of utility stocks have at last passed into nobler and purer hands who will at some later time, dispense them at profitable prices as a reward for their virtue and foresight...