Word: troughing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...aquarium of the Arcturus. In spite of the weather, bottom dredging was possible to a depth of three miles. A half-inch cable, containing seven strands of 19 wires each (133 wires in all), was paid out from the drums for three hours, while the steamer drifted in the trough of the swell. The steamer proceeded at about three knots an hour. It then required another three hours to wind the cable back on the drums lifting the dredge alongside the Arcturus. The dredge resembles an oyster dredge with runners on top and bottom. Up from the bottom were brought...
This instrument is a device for taking very delicate measurements of the speed of light rays. Two rays are used for comparison. It works roughly on the principle that, if two sets of waves are produced and the crest of one is timed to come in the trough of another, the appearance of waves is destroyed. In the case of light, this means a dark place or shadow. When the light rays are received upon a given surface, visible dark lines are formed by the interference of the waves. Using this device in Southern California, last year, experiments were made...
...Came Back. Patrons of the high blood pressure drama will recall this melo-sample of a few years back. The hero slides down the widely advertised trough of iniquity and gets the breaks working just before he pitches over the edge. For the outcome, the reader is referred to the title. George O'Brien and Dorothy Mackaill are the slider and the brakes respectively. The action roams just about all over the world, gets into opium dens and that sort of thing, and manages to make itself thoroughly exciting...
Public utilities and railroads are in high feather; their stocks are rising steadily in Wall Street; they are planning elaborate and significant mergers. But industrial concerns are very much in the trough of depression, as conditions in the basic and typical steel and iron industry go to show...
Ulrika piles up a fortune on commissions out of the general flood of money, after she has thoroughly demoralized the children?the only son develops into a degenerate?and brought the rest of her own family and friends to feed at the trough. Only one daughter, Josephine Mylius, withstands the influence, and a battle ensues between the wicked, but clever, and the good, but dumb, which concludes at the end of Part I with the defeat of Josephine. She is unable, in a world wholly full of rottenness and decay, to find her own feet; and Ulrika achieves her most...