| 单词 | dirty thirties |
| 释义 | > as lemmasDirty Thirties Dirty Thirties n. (also with lower-case initials) (a) the 1930s characterized as a period of social permissiveness or moral laxity (rare); (b) North American (now esp. Canadian) the Great Depression of the 1930s; this as a period of prolonged drought and severe dust storms on the North American prairies. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [noun] > specific centuries, decades, or years fire year1673 quattrocento1854 the hungry forties1905 dix-huitième1920 roaring twenties1923 Dirty Thirties1931 1931 Observer 22 Feb. 4/2 If those were the naughty nineties, these are the dirty thirties. 1946 Amer. Scientist Oct. 640 The high price of wheat and our careless farm practices led to the dust storms of the ‘dirty thirties’. 2020 Edmonton Sun (Nexis) 8 Feb. (Final ed.) t58 He began..back-stopping a number of lines to nowhere, which ended up nearly bankrupting the province when the hammer came down during the Dirty Thirties. < as lemmas |
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