Word: rising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forthcoming Douglas DC-4 will need a thrust of 15,000 Ib. to take off in 1,150 ft. This requires an engine of 3,250 h.p., which is too expensive. Probable solution will be a large flywheel which can store up this much energy. The catapult would presumably rise from an emplacement in the centre of the field. Passengers might need headrests, but would not be internally distressed by the sudden start...
...Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania and Adjacent States (213,065 members), opened its 195th convention in Philadelphia, then moved to Atlantic City. The Ministerium's pleasure in learning that its income had risen for the first time in six years was tempered by the realization that the rise amounted to iff per week per member. In his annual report President Ernest Philip Pfatteicher flayed much, including the "growing practice" of holding funerals in funeral parlors, which he called "a step backward from the Christian standpoint." President Pfatteicher also observed: "The Church has undoubtedly lost much of its onetime prestige...
...elms, the oaks, and maples rise and keep Their murmuring boughs above the land they share...
...little that is new in the interpretation of Britain's past. To the uninitiated or the casual student, the book will provide a well rounded, clearly thought out study of "England from the earliest times to the accession of George VI--the drama of a small barbaric island's rise to mastery over a third of the globe...
...begin the following June or July. Nothing happened in June, and as late as June 27 economists including Cleveland's Col. Leonard Porter Ayres saw no signs that General Dawes was right. But less than two weeks later (TIME, July 22, 1935) steel ingot production suddenly began the rise which has been virtually continuous ever since. By this modest but clean-cut feat Banker Dawes gained a reputation as a Recovery Prophet.* Starting up from his laurels last week, "Charlie"' Dawes published a 45-page book, How Long Prosperity?, in which he risked another and equally definite prediction...