Word: spiralling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guilder should go the way of the yen, pound and dollar, it is certain that Indonesia would increase her sales. But is it certain that the yen, pound and dollar will not dance on down an insane spiral with no bottom? And should Dutchmen join in such a dance? Brave Retreat. In The Hague last week Premier Colijn introduced his new Cabinet thus: "We will defend the guilder against devaluation! The people of The Netherlands must maintain their spirit and assist the Government in fighting the Depression under adverse circumstances!" This sounded as if the Premier had an aggressive program...
Elucidating the great universe of stars and spiral nebulae and abysmal reaches of space, Dr. Einstein advanced in 1915 his General Theory of Relativity, which brought celestial performances into the four-dimensional theatre of space-time and made gravity an effect of space-time's curvature. Today Relativity is as familiar a guide to astronomers as a radio beam to an aviator...
...Lindbergh (LL. D., Northwestern and Wisconsin) put his mechanical wits to work and in May 1931 was able to publish anonymously in Science a skimpy description of a pump which Dr. Carrel desired and he designed. It consisted of a spirally coiled glass tube, resembling a hot water heater. The top opening of the Lindbergh tube was connected to the bottom opening by a straight glass tube, and the liquid sealed into the closed tubular circuit. By standing the coil on end and wobbling it, centrifugal force pushed the fluid up to the top of the spiral. There the fluid...
...international exchange fiscal experts pulled long faces "because Belgium is the first country which has already devalued since the War to devalue a second time." If the world is to be plunged into an endless spiral of devaluation, each nation in turn undercutting the others, they could view the fiscal future with no optimism whatsoever...
Stalled for the first half, Minnesota's steamroller started rolling in the second. A homecoming crowd of 59,000 at Minneapolis saw Pug Lund spiral passes that averaged 44 yd., Stan Kostka batter Michigan's line to bits, Julius Alfonse scamper 76 yd. to a touchdown. Minnesota 34, Michigan...