The Depression

Definition: The Depression

The Depression

Noun

1. A time period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: The Depression

Crosswords: The Depression

I don't know what to do about the depression, the inflation, the Russians, or the crime in the streets. (Network; writing credit: Paddy Chayefsky)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Elegant Glassware of the Depression Era: Identification and Value Guide (Elegant Glassware of the Depression Era, 10th Ed) (reference)

• Kitchen Glassware of the Depression Years: Identification & Values (Kitchen Glassware of the Depression Era, 6th Ed) (reference)

• The Depression of the Dirty Thirties: Howard and Erma's Life (reference)

• Very Rare Glassware of the Depression Years: Sixth Series Identification and Values (reference)

• We Ate Gooseberries: Growing Up on a Minnesota Farm During the Depression (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Trucks and the Depression make the big parties possible Triangulation party of Paul A. Smith.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

[Statues from the Depression Awareness Recognition and Treatment campaign].Credit: National Library of Medicine.

White section gang near King City, California. Before the depression this work was done entirely by Mexican labor.Credit: Library of Congress.

White section gang near King City, California. Before the depression this work was done entirely by Mexican labor.Credit: Library of Congress.

The depression of the 30's.Credit: Library of Congress.

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Health

Mental functioning becomes clouded due to the depression of the central nervous system. (references)

In contrast to the depression of the cellular immune response, humoral immune response of sarcoidosis patients is elevated. (references)

One can take advantage of the sedative effect of some of these agents in addition to their more specific effect on the depression. (references)

Economic History

United Kingdom

The losses and destruction of World War I, the depression of the 1930s, and decades of relatively slow growth eroded the United Kingdom's preeminent international position of the previous century. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Finnish

pula-ajan vaikutukset (the consequences of the depression). (various references)

French

matrice (into which sheet metal is forced so it will take on the conformation of the depression in the die.). (various references)

Pig Latin

ethay epressionday

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: predestines.

-3 letters: depression, desertions, dripstones, epenthesis, ephedrines, hotpressed, interposed, interposes, predestine, presidents, redeposits, terpenoids, threnodies.

-4 letters: deportees, desertion, dethrones, dishonest, dispenser, dissenter, dopesters, dripstone, endorsees, ensphered, enspheres, entropies, ephedrine, ephedrins, eternised, eternises, hedonists, hessonite, heteroses, heterosis, honesties, indorsees, insphered, inspheres, interpose, isoprenes, isotheres, nephrites, nephroses, nephrosis, otherness, persisted, phrensied, phrensies, pioneered, poetisers, potsherds.

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