Word: rising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Malay States, lost his hearing in one ear and while he was ill in India met a helpful U. S. consul. Then & there he determined to be a diplomat. He flunked his first examination, but managed to get a clerkship in Cairo. In 1904, his star began to rise. Hunter Roosevelt I read young Mr Grew's Sport and Travel in the Far East instantly concluded that a man who could crawl into a cave and shoot a tiger as Joe Grew had done, must have the makings of a diplomat...
Then Queen Elizabeth made her first speech, and exercised the Royal prerogative to break a date. The date she broke was engraved in six-inch letters on the cornerstone of the new Supreme Court building which will rise on a bluff overlooking the Ottawa River. Unwary of the fact that Their Majesties' visit might be delayed, engravers had marked the stone as laid on May 19. Blithely, with an ivory-handled gold trowel, the Queen tapped the stone on May 20, declared it laid, chatted with a Scottish stone mason whose accent moved her to remark: "You haven...
...social structure that calls itself socialist-has on the loyalties of 170,126,000 people. What has it given them? How firmly would they unite to defend it? After the purges and crises, after the Five-Year Plans, how much enthusiasm remains for the system that gave rise to them...
...group of financiers forms two identical investment trusts, each with identical portfolios. After a market rise, Trust X realizes its profits by selling its securities, but Trust Y does not. Accountants therefore certify that X had a large profit, Y only that realized on dividends. X's stock rises on the news and Y's falls. The financiers then sell their X stock at a profit, reinvest it in the depressed Y stock. Then they order Y to realize its profits by selling its portfolio. When the accountants certify this profit, Y's stock rises, giving...
...such fugitives from history, learned, liberal Historians Charles and Mary Beard this week provided America in Midpassage (the third volume of their Rise of American Civilization), a condensed but still bulky survey of the last ten years. Into its 977 pages the Beards with evident relish have packed the joltiest jars of the great skid from the boom of 1928 to the gloom of 1939, suggest some new rules for safer driving if the car of state ever climbs back on the road...