Word: nadir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Minister of National Economy Mendès-France: "Conditions now appear ripe for improvement." The curve of the national economy, which touched its nadir several weeks ago, is now rising. Shipping is no longer so scarce; for example, the port of Marseilles handles more than its prewar tonnage. Carloadings are up. The textile industry is gathering headway. By 1946 French agriculture will supply the nation's bread, the period of "repairs" will be over, the period of "getting started" will begin. And by 1948 the period of genuine "economic planning" can be launched...
Sirs: Harken to the nadir in customer's men, as I must be, since I am not in the least dis pleased over the new bull market as described in TIME, May 24. The fact that the Stock Exchange officials and the brokers are not enjoying this boom in securities is of little concern. Is John Q. Public, the man who always gets it in the end, and the man for whom the Exchange exists and functions, having a good time...
...Elis pulled even farther ahead in the second half, and here the Harvard five reached its all-season nadir. In the first ten minutes of the period, while Yale took a 35 to 27 lead, the team took exactly five shots at the basket. Every time the Varsity moved down the floor, it found a new way to lose the ball. Blind passes, stolen balls, and what passed for Eli aggressiveness all took their toll. Underneath the backboard the Crimson was helpless...
...time when Communist armies are doing both the lion's and the eagle's share of fighting the war, squelching that party in an election is the nadir of diplomatic ineptitude. It makes as little sense as pelting the British Ambassador with eggs. News of the New York development will be first priority propaganda for the Nazi radio. Such crude methods of separating radical chaff from political wheat actually supply ready-made grist for Goebbels' mill...
Last week the sullen heralds of total war chattered in British skies, but many a British scientist, true to a long and stanch tradition, went calmly on with his researches in "pure" or fundamental science.* One of the purest of pure sciences is the approach to absolute zero, the nadir of cold. Absolute zero is the point at which all random motions of material particles, due to heat energy, are completely stilled. It is calculated at 273.13° below zero on the centigrade scale, and it can be written as simply 0°K., meaning zero on the Kelvin...