Word: rising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story of the rise and fall of the Trilobites is made more poignant when it is considered that in Cambrian time they were the most intelligent and promising. Probably insects arose from the earliest Trilobites. I mention this to relieve the gloom of the rise and fall of this group of animals...
...though you were innocent," he cried. "May your sacrifice be a guiding sign for us." Throaty shouts of "Seig Heil" punctuated the speech of Henlein's stooge, Deputy Karl Hermann Frank, as he defiantly used words from the forbidden Nazi Horst Wessel hymn and roared, "The dead shall rise again because they march in spirit with us in our ranks. Thousands will arise for every one who falls. Whenever the Führer calls on us to stand by for action, we see these dead men also in our ranks...
...radical. The commission offered facts to prove that equality of opportunity is a myth, that there is a "conspiracy of forces that tends to keep certain groups more or less permanently submerged." It found the chances were 3 to i that the son of a laborer will not rise to a job on the white-collar level...
Jagged descending lines on some charts tended to level off, or even rise, last week. Barren's business index for the second week in succession stood at 53.7% of normal. Steel production was virtually static at 30% of capacity; lumber-up from 166,926,000 board feet fortnight ago to 179,322,000 last week; automobiles - down from 53,385 units fortnight...
...first time since mid-March The Annalist index of wholesale commodity prices moved upward. High-grade bonds continued a steady improvement begun six weeks ago. The stock market after a 1½ month long irregular rise notable even in the depressed railroad and public utilities, stood still-but odd-lot traders, who have been buying against the trend, suddenly switched to selling...