Word: slidings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Manhattan kids last week had their first chance to go coasting since Thanksgiving. In its puckish fashion the stock-market also went tobogganing. Somewhat to the confusion of Wall Street, which was generally bullish, prices continued a slide that began with the new year. The Dow-Jones industrial stock average got down to 146.52, barely above the November...
Professor Weigl, said Marianne, ties a louse on a glass slide with a paper band, places it under a microscope. With a syringe and a glass tube fine as a hair, he injects a tiny drop of solution containing the virus, previously procured from infected guinea pigs, into the louse's intestinal opening. Then he imprisons the louse in a cage about the size of a matchbox, which has one side covered with fine silk gauze. Through the gauze the lice stick their mandibles. With these they suck blood from the arms of Professor Weigl and his wife...
Writes Hagiographer Ghéon: "The Devil had managed to slide into his conscience the monstrous sophism that a priest of the Church can obey God while disobeying the Church; it was the one vulnerable spot-and the devil put his finger on it." M. Vianney cheated his old enemy, however, and remained...
Phenomena. "Dull but important" is Senator O'Mahoney's apologetic phrase for the Investigation. He hoped to make witnesses, however big of wig, feel (though subpoenaed) like voluntary bugs on a slide instead of the quarry in a witch-hunt. His program first called up big bugs from the motors and glass industries-Edsel Ford, William Knudsen, George A. Ball, William Levis-to be examined scientifically with special reference to their patent and sales practices as typical U. S. industrial phenomena...
...sides of the valleys to what they thought was safety. No sooner had they escaped the floods than worse disaster loomed. In the hills the soaked ground gave way here & there, slipped with a roar into the valleys. Panic-stricken natives now hunted for slopes that would not slide. The alarmed British administration at Castries, the island's seat, conscripted gangs of banana and sugar plantation laborers to keep communications open, evacuate the people to the coast. The rains fell harder. As though the soil were determined to wash back into the sea, avalanches of St. Lucia...