Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...climax of the tennis season. Having withdrawn to the professional ranks, Fred Perry has, like Ellsworth Vines before him, given the season that refreshing stimulation that follows the abdication of a recognized champion. The question he left behind him was one that Forest Hills would go a long way toward answering. It was simply whether J. Donald Budge of Oakland, Calif., having achieved almost single-handed the return of the Davis Cup to the U. S. this year for the first time since 1926, and having smashed his way to an unprecedented triple victory in the All-England singles, doubles...
...Fritz Zwicky reported a tremendous celestial cataclysm which happened 3,000,000 years ago. This was a supernova, a star exploding with suicidal violence. So distant was it that long before the first creatures describable as human beings appeared, the light of the supernova's outburst began flashing toward Earth...
...cosmic rays, brought the matter of supernovae to the attention of the National Academy of Sciences. He said then that supernovae probably cease to exist as ordinary stars; that protons and electrons coalesce on the surface into neutrons which, having no electric charges to repel one another, "rain" down toward the centre, pack sluggishly together, creating a heavy, lifeless "neutron star." With the possible exception of one 19th Century supernova, the supernova reported by Dr. Zwicky last week was the brightest ever studied by modern astronomers. It was ten times brighter than the average supernova, 100 times brighter than...
What makes Ivan Sanderson's account of his amiable expedition heart-warming is the fact that his sympathy toward animals is as rich as his eye for observed detail is acute and his prose style is limpid. Sample: ''Above me rose the immensity of the primeval forest, filtering the golden sunlight, as it has done since the dawn of terrestrial life. In the bowels of this woody giant scampered the trembling feet of little rats, furry squirrels, countless birds, and scaly lizards...
Bearish as these statistics were, there were ample other indications that fall business would be good, that the trend is still upward, the trend of prices still toward inflation. Commodities might indeed be falling, but that was a logical outcome of bumper crops which would still leave farmers with the biggest income in years. Industrial and agricultural bank loans attained the highest figure in five years ($620,000,000), while airconditioning equipment production, cigaret sales and electric power output were at all-time peaks. Moreover, retail sales were zooming happily. Payrolls were still fattening. In view of such indices...