Word: sag
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crest cf the boom been reached? The department found some evidence that it had. In three states (Florida, California and Louisiana), land prices had begun to sag. Land values almost everywhere else were still rising, but the rate was down from 1947. Income-wise, farm land was still cheaper than at the peak of the World War I boom, as the cash yield per acre is now 59% higher...
Courtly Ways. The two men faced each other across a net that sagged fearfully in the center. That was the way the net sagged when two monks began banging a ball around the courtyard of a French monastery some 700 years ago, and the sag hadn't changed. Neither had the court, very much-it still had most of the features of the old courtyard the monks used. On three sides, a sloping roof (called penthouse) was a memento of the monastery's cow sheds...
...little story, and it is so simply and deeply germane to daily life, that it is hard to realize that most of it was re-enacted and that some of it was invented. The Grandfather is very anxious to repair and enlarge the house, which has begun to sag and crack along one corner; the women are fully as eager to bring in electric current. They can't afford both in the same year. Grandfather yields to the women; and when he dies, that fall, the house is still unmended. This little conflict between fundamental repair and labor-saving...
Last week, after a slight sag, the industrials broke through again, rising to a new 1947 high of 186.85. Once more, the rails failed to follow the breakthrough. To the strict Dow theorists, it was still a bear market, though some were trying to weasel through a semantic loophole: the so-called bear market might be only a large scale reaction in the wartime bull market...
...year ago Old 81st's ruler-straight back began to sag, his legs swelled with arthritis. He got so weak and lame that his handlers, anxious to maintain his invaluable services, adopted a strategy that beefmen rarely use. By artificial insemination, Old 81st got 190 more cows with calf before, wasted by pain, he was finally put to death last week...