Word: spirals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quick! it is already 12, Down the spiral and by the Chapel to Harvard Hall. Russia is getting a jump on the world. Look at your globe. It is shorter to fly over the North Pole from Moscow to San Francisco than to follow the old paths. In June a Soviet plane will try that route. Grim, nevertheless Stalin is raising a hubbub among the international lawyers the world over; for what does the Soviet Government do but claim even the pack ice all the way to the North Pole! Ah, the bit in the teeth; the jump...
...naked-eye visibility. Astronomers did not bother to name it but set it down by number, I. C. 342, in the Second Index Catalog (1895). With better cameras and telescopes I. C. 342 was found to have faint arms. Then these arms were seen to be tremendously long and spiraling. Later the nebula was revealed as much closer to Earth than at first believed, scarcely 1,000,000 light years away. It was marked now not as a blob, but as an island universe containing a billion or more stars. Finally, at Harvard, the diameter of this star-galaxy...
...quick to dress and down the ladder which leads to the spiral attic and herein I did meet the clock-winder, and after many How Do You Do's I down two hundred more steps and finally to the Memorial Hall which, as all now do know, used to be a dining hall but now is used for military science and drilling and, just as bad, methinks, for examinations...
...that orgy of 'prosperity' slum conditions went unheeded, better education was forgotten, usurious interest charges mounted, child labor continued, starvation wages were too often the rule. . . . Mammon ruled America. Those are the years to remember-those fool's paradise years before the crash came. Downward Spiral. "This nation slipped spirally downward, ever downward, to the inevitable point when the mechanics of civilization came to a dead stop on March 3, 1933. You and I need not rehearse the four years of disaster and gloom. . . . You and I can well remember the overwhelming demand that the national Government...
...take personal command of the last phase. Two days later the tail of a typhoon zigzagged across Japan, leaving 300 dead and more than $9,000,000 of damage, flailing a Japanese flotilla maneuvering off the east coast of Honshu, the Empire's largest island. The furious spiral of wind and water swept 27 officers & men off the destroyer Yugiri, 24 off the destroyer Hatsuyuki and one off the broad deck of the aircraft carrier Hosho. All were lost. Tersely adding up, Japan's Navy Office swelled the list with a final Japanese sailor who "was killed" aboard...