Word: rising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...content, too, and the Liddell Hart plan or something like it firmly adopted, seemed proved last week when the Cabinet's most restless and rabidly anti-Hitler member, Winston Churchill, in reviewing the War's first month (see p. 55), called on his countrymen not only to rise above fear but also "above inconvenience and, perhaps most difficult of all, boredom...
...washout, broadcasting mainly late news, and such humdrum as the state of the wallabies at Whipsnade Zoo, the views of ruddy British workmen that things at home are not so bad. But in German, to Germany, the BBC is anything but wishy-washy. Nightly, the BBC exhorts Germans to rise, overthrow their leaders, bring peace to the world...
Born 69 years ago, in Claverack, N. Y., Lamont attended Phillips Exeter Academy before entering Harvard as an undergraduate in 1888. He started work, after getting his A.B. degree, as a reporter on the New York Tribune, but soon entered the banking field, where his rise was phenomenal. In 1911 he joined the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co. and since then has served on the boards of many of the nation's largest corporations...
...Belgians in fortifications along their frontier, the Dutch prepared if necessary to open their Zuider Zee dikes and inundate most of their central provinces, abandoning their entire northeast to the invader and taking national refuge in the Rotterdam-Utrecht-Amsterdam triangle. To give their waters time to rise, the Dutch mined all roads and bridges entering their country from Germany. They erected tank obstructions and traps, leaving only one lane open for normal traffic on each highway bridge. Their Army stood mobilized at about 650,000 under Lieut. General I. H. Reynbers, 60, a short, jolly infantryman...
About half of London's publishers moved to countryside offices. All laid in big paper stocks in anticipation of such a paper famine as occurred in World War I, when even wrapping paper became almost worth its weight in gold. If paper prices rise, Penguin and other cheap books will suffer first...