Word: rising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They will make a brave fight. They may be overwhelmed by the hordes whose morals are the morals of Communism, whose methods are cowardly. . . . Even if Finland falls, the day will come when it will rise again-for the forces of righteousness are not dead in the world...
...Unto Seppänen's Sun and Storm (Bobbs-Merrill, $2.50) traces the rise of a Finnish peasant to wealth and power. Sombre, heavy, conscientious, its handicap is that too many sombre, heavy, conscientious peasant novels have preceded...
Since 1935 there has been a steady rise in the number of students concentrating in Government so that during the past three years Government has been the second largest field with English dropping to third place and History a close fourth, the survey indicates...
...spite of their boom, furniture manufacturers were not cheery. They believed that retailers were stocking up faster than the public was buying. They feared that raw material prices would rise, boosting prices and nipping the industry's little boomlet. They gloomed that if World War II brings increased construction costs, new home building will suffer. All the same, 1939 household furniture sales should exceed $400,000,000 for the first time since...
...Nancy Hanks as "sad with sorrow like dark stars in blue mist"). Because Sandburg has been compared often to Walt Whitman, his mature portrait of Walt is instructive: "Undersized, with graying whiskers, Quaker-blooded, softhearted, sentimental, a little crazy, this Walt Whitman sang to the war years, 'Rise O days, from your fathomless deeps...