Word: steadier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reason for the 17-year record: Depression II cut imports, notably raw materials for manufacture, 36% to $1,960,528,000, while steadier business conditions abroad, plus demand for armaments and food, held U. S. exports at $3,094,095,000, a drop of only...
...queasy readers it may provide a sensation something like that of sitting in an operating amphitheatre for the first time. Readers with steadier stomachs will follow with interest such clinical details as the sensations of Dr. Norton's wife when she is having an uncontrollable laughing fit, and when she realizes she can never be cured...
...held the Trojans at bay from then on, scoring one more in the same canto and the rest during a hectic third period on-slaught. Despite a fast-skating squad and a clever passing attack, the Canadian-manned Coast six never really seemed to get going against the steadier, back-checking Hoddermen...
...seek no change in the form of American Government. . . . It is of interest to read Macaulay's letter with care-for I find in it no reference to the improving of the living conditions of the poor, to the encouragement of better homes or greater wages, or steadier work...
...explained Franklin, "and I don't like to have my photograph taken." A member of his family has since revealed that a good part of Franklin's dislike of being photographed at Philadelphia may well have been due to his anxiety lest another, and at the time steadier, girl friend find out that he was having a date with Ethel. However, Franklin and Ethel were already old friends, having met, they now dimly recall, at a Groton dance several years before. And he was subsequently her guest at a dance at swank Ethel Walker School (Simsbury, Conn...