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Both of these men were fortunate and skilled enough to avoid the brunt of the Great Depression. (source)Great Depression = the most severe economic crisis in U.S. history beginning with the stock market crash in 1929
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Well, my granddad's parents lost everything in the Great Depression. (source)
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Government officials thought this would solve the unemployment associated with the Great Depression (it didn't). (source)
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It ended as the Great Depression hit Northern economies hard. (source)
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We're just getting off the Great Depression but it'll be good again once we get to World War II. (source)
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She arrived in New York just in time for the first Thanksgiving Day of the Great Depression. (source)
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I'd heard of the Great Depression years before when I'd played Annie, but the slides of men in hats and long coats lined up in front of soup kitchens were new to me. (source)Great Depression = the most severe economic crisis in U.S. history beginning with the stock market crash in 1929
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And she bought one from a Sante Fe gift shop during a trip the little family made out West during the Great Depression. (source)
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My grandmother's parents left Havana in the 1930s in search of work; at the time Jamaica was an island of relative prosperity amid the worldwide Great Depression. (source)
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Jackson, Mississippi, in the Great Depression wasn't so different from the Congo thirty years later, except that in Jackson we knew of some that had plenty and I guess that did make us restless from time to time. (source)
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But the 1929 stock market crash, followed by the Great Depression and the Second World War, caused a decline in the parks. (source)
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Only his wife was looking at him, her face alight with interest as he discussed the value of hard labor, then the deplorable lack of initiative in the younger generation, then the benefits conferred by having lived through the Great Depression. (source)
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The Great Depression was never far from my parents' thoughts; they suffered through the worst economic depression to ever hit the United States when they were younger. (source)
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After my father was dead and the Great Depression remained with us, I got a part-time job there. (source)
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But the 1929 stock market crash, followed by the Great Depression and the Second World War, caused a decline in the parks. (source)
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I could never have imagined that I—a slave terrorized by Hatsumomo's wickedness—had lived a relatively fortunate life through the Great Depression. (source)
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Bouncing on beds, I remember from childhood, is a great depression reliever. (source)great depression = sadness or despondency
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The fits themselves are mostly preceded by great depression of spirits, shedding of tears, sickness, palpitation of the heart, &c.... (source)great depression = in ability to feel pleasure
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At this dismal intelligence, I twisted the only button on my waistcoat round and round, and looked in great depression at the fire. (source)great depression = with sadness or despondency
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But although these disappointments caused me great depression at times, I pursued my other studies with unflagging interest, especially physical geography.
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great depression = sadness or despondency
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