Word: spiralling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ready to receive a pass when the man. with the ball is about to be tackled (see cut). Tackling around the neck is permitted in rugby. The game has the technique of football, the pattern of hockey. Cambridge players last week learned one trick from Harvard: the spiral pass, for more distance and accuracy on a line-out after touch...
...long, is able to employ greater producing capacity than his rivals who are fundamentally more efficient. This and other similar conditions show that unrestrained rivalry comes far from amounting to a system of checks and balances and an agent of adjustment. It suggests more accurately a continually descending spiral, pointing through industrial anarchy towards ultimate destruction for every one. Some sort of regulation or supervision over production has proved itself necessary. The N.R.A. is the solution...
...months more (for sunspot changes cannot be forecast like eclipses) had not Dr. Seth Barnes Nicholson of Mt. Wilson Observatory reported two heralds of the sunspot upturn, slyly adding that he saw a first and fainter one a month ago. Sunspots seem to be whirlwinds-the mouths of spiral disturbances arising from below the surface. Hot gases emerging from the vortex expand and cool, thus make the spot look comparatively dark. Though no explanation of the cause of the disturbances has been confidently advanced, the shifting combination of gravitational pulls exerted by the planets is possibly involved. Visible spots range...
...sales to be expected from the rising purchasing power of the public. That is good economics and good business. . . . If we now inflate prices as fast and as far as we increase wages the whole project will be set at naught. . . . If we can . . . start a strong sound upward spiral of business activity our industries will have little doubt of black-ink operations in the last quarter of this year...
...that the country has outgrown them in both directions, above and below, it is doubtful that so subtle a mind as Hearst's is trapped in tragedy. He knows he has lived a great life and bent the course of millions of other lives. By the dark mental spiral that is called "inconsistency" he can accommodate himself and his past to whatever is new. That is what he has always been, a newsman...