Word: sagged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slovenliest man in all Britain writes some of its loveliest prose. Lord Dunsany takes childish pride in the sag of his coat and the splay of his collar, what time he gets lost on a golden road to nowhere, beholding faery sights. Shadows are among his specialties. For The King of Elfland's Daughter (1924) he invented a whole zone of twilight, where unicorns browsed and cabbage-roots were thunderbolts. Now he writes of a crone, cheated of her shadow by a magician of old Spain, and of a romantic worldling who came to the magician's wood...
Locomotive producers, spurred by the sag in the railway equipment business, have been hard at work at this problem for some time. The "Big Three"-American, Baldwin and Lima-are all getting somewhere with their attempts in this direction...
...tremendous underlying strength in the money situation gives assurance to even the most skeptical. Business may sag but it cannot crash...
...exchange markets always comes in the autumn. During the fall season, the British regularly purchase large amounts of our cereals and cotton, and in consequence are forced to make heavy payments to the U. S. Even before the War, in the absence of other offsetting factors, sterling tended to sag in terms of U. S. dollars...
...foot-bridge which will lead from the lower reaches of De Wolf Street to the ash-dumps in hither Stadiumland, will not be, as popular belief would have it, a light and swaying bamboo structure spanning the Charles. It will not sag and sway beneath the feet of business school men with their green bags, plodding wearily home from classes. All the illusion of a full moon, rising behind the Brighton Abattoir or whenever it does rise to shine on this new rainbow arch, will be shattered by cold brick and cement. It will be made, alas, to walk...