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Great Depression

noun

The economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s.

A period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment. Synonym: Depression.

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"Great depression" Quotes from Famous Books

... of great depression, during which he could not away with music, or listen to the words of the New Testament. During one of these Robert had begun to read a chapter to him, in the faint hope that he might ...

— Robert Falconer • George MacDonald

... as these furnish matter for triumphal gratulation, but also for great depression: and in the enormity of our joint responsibilities, we French and English have reason to forget the grandeur of our separate stations. It is fit that we should keep alive these feelings, and continually refresh them, by watching ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. • Various

... replied. "Even before that great sorrow which has made me the loneliest man upon the earth—even in the days when my animal spirits were considered at times almost boisterous, I was always at intervals subject to periods of great depression, or rather, I should say, to periods of ennui. I must either be painting or reading or writing. I had not the precious faculty of being able on occasions to sit and let the rich waters of life flow over me. I would yearn for amusement, and search in vain for some object to amuse ...

— Aylwin • Theodore Watts-Dunton

... of the wind and the moan of the sawing branches was very comfortless, yet he made no effort to shut it out. To begin with, he was so weak that it was too much trouble to move. To go on with, the melancholy sounds were not ill-suited to his present humour. For a great depression was upon him, a weariness of spirit which might be felt. Out of doors London shivered, houses and sky and the expanse of Trimmer's Green, with its leafless trees and iron railings, livid, a greyness upon them as of fear. Dominic ...

— The Far Horizon • Lucas Malet

... library the next morning she found her grandfather seated at the table, his head resting on his extended arms in an attitude of great depression. The young ...

— Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls • Edith Van Dyne (AKA L. Frank Baum)

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