Word: rising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe there would be interest in a short feature of quotations of those earlier men with a simple salutation to the individual concerned, as: To-Bob Pastor: He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day; But he who is in battle slain, Can never rise to fight again...
First Japanese reactions to the German-Russian Pact were complete bewilderment. Cabinet Ministers began the routine of hurried calls-on each other, on the Premier, on privy councilors, on the Emperor -which invariably accompany important Japanese decisions and invariably give rise to rumors that the Cabinet will fall. Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita, who had many a time publicly plumed himself on having accomplished the Anti-Comintern Pact, was busy word-swallowing; Premier Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, who came to power last January because he had Fascist leanings, looked as if he would topple over when his leaning posts were suddenly withdrawn...
...determination of 7,500,000 Serbs (Serbian Eastern Orthodox) not to share Yugoslavia's rule with 4,500,000 Croats (Roman Catholic), and the tenacity of Croatian struggles, the ruthlessness of Serbian repression, gave Croats the reputation of being one of the worst-treated minorities in Europe. The rise of Adolf Hitler quickly changed this, not only by making German Jews a still worse-treated minority, but by making the sporazum a big factor in Axis policy. Facing Germany and old Austria in the North, Italy across the Adriatic (and presently in Albania), with over 60% of her exports...
Production. The Federal Reserve Board last week released its production index for July: 102, up from 98 for June. This rise (which represented not an increase in production but the fact that most business did not decline as usual in July-for the index is seasonally adjusted) reflected in part unusually early machinery, parts and materials production for the 1940 auto models (on show already...
...this comes true, the production index can look forward to a rise of only three to seven points compared to a 20-point rise from July to November last year...