Word: slid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week these predictions did not look so hot. When they were made, industrial production stood at 104. In January it slid to 101, in February and March to 98. In April, while it continued on its way down, Colonel Ayres's latest analysis stubbornly laid down conditions for recovery "to continue." A month before Joe Kennedy spoke, the Dow Jones stock averages had reached a 1938 high of 158.41, but last week they were about halfway back to their 1938 low of 98.95. Ambassador Kennedy was saying nothing (for publication) about stock prices...
Chiefly self-made experts who slid fortuitously into their roles, Broadway's critics wield a power shared by no like number of men in any other...
...Ontario, Calif., Mrs. lola Martin stepped out of her mother's house, heard a clatter on the roof, was almost hit by twelve perch which slid off the eaves. Overhead a flock of cranes flapped hurriedly away...
...collective conscience has almost completely disappeared in this respect; students regularly cheat and feel no qualms about so doing. Parents condone: one tutor recently boasted that his position was impregnable since he tutored the sons of the Corporation. And, more than this, the University administration and Faculty have slid into a neat little niche of grudging tolerance. They recognize that an evil exists, but their inaction bespeaks a dangerous fatalism, a conviction that the evil is inevitable...
Strength already flowed back to him as he watched his Martini being mixed. The bartender slid the glass towards him, then drew it back and whistled between his teeth. "Say, you're a student, ain't you?" The question upset the proctor. He thought of the pile of unread books on his desk and nodded. "Too bad, too bad," the bartender commented sadly. "We can't serve drinks to students. Company rules, you know...