Word: slump
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late Author Jakob Wassermann and Edouard Herriot. Greenburger, in turn, had been sold by the book's ghostwriter, a onetime lawyer who married a night-club singer friend of Miss Nesbit. Editor Joseph Medill Patterson of the News, who bought the serial to bolster the usual summer circulation slump, proudly announced last week that the feature had upped sales...
...opening of the silver casket was promptly followed by a slump in silver futures, largely due to the stamp tax on speculation. In Colorado, silver men said that the President's silver bill gave them "nothing at all." Britons deplored the comfort given to the heresy of bimetallism. Frenchmen applauded the President's political savoir faire and shrugged their shoulders at the grotesque thought of bimetallism. Japanese peeped that bimetallism was impossible. Germany studiously explained that bimetallism does not work. Only foreign word of praise came from Shanghai. Mr. Tsuyee Pei, manager of the Bank of China...
During the 16 years of his three presidencies, Father Masaryk has seen Czechoslovakia grow rich under French backing, attempt to solidify her position with Dr. Benes' Little Entente, slump slightly with Depression and finally face the menace of Naziism on her borders. The two most serious problems that the old gentleman faces at the beginning of his fourth term are: 1) a Nazi Austria to the south and a Nazi Germany to the north; 2) a possible Habsburg restoration with a revival of Hungary's demands for part of her lost provinces of Slovakia and Carpathian Ruthenia...
...department, but every now and then suddenly going full out. At the time of the Princeton and Cornell games it looked as if they had wiped out their early season weaknesses and were going to be at the top of the League. But since then there's been a slump that was broken only last Wednesday by a very fine win over Brown...
Major Writer? Dickens' stock, which took a severe slump toward the end of the igth Century and has never regained its oldtime high, is not considered to have found its proper level. A "classic," he is no longer widely read, except in abridgments, but his reputation as a No. 1 English writer is not therefore less secure. Dickens "did for the whole English-speaking race what Burns had done for Scotland-he gave it a new conceit of itself." An unliterary author, he wrote for his immediate audience, and much of what he wrote died with his readers. Says...