Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Koreans in the Japanese Army should desert, "carrying their arms along," to the Communists. "Koreans should rise up immediately . . . fight their way back to Korea . . . build up a new democratic Korean republic...
...Harvardman, Father James Otis Sergent Huntington. Gifts from inter ested Episcopalians and fees for preaching have kept it alive. Since 1904 the Order's mother house has been the handsome, red brick, well-landscaped Monastery of the Holy Cross, across the Hudson from Hyde Park. There the monks rise at 5:25 each morning with the words: "Thanks be to God." Four hours of their day are spent in meditation, prayer and the seven tradi tional offices of worship (Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers and Com pline), in which psalms are sung in ancient plain song. During...
...Three had no intention of letting Germany rise again. They had said so at Yalta. At Potsdam they spelled out a German control plan (mostly of U.S. origin) which added up to the greatest of all experiments in Big Three cooperation and planned security (see below...
...Alger wrote about poor boys who became millionaires. (His heroes rose from poverty to riches but by contemporary standards they did not rise to the top-their fortunes usually averaged...
Ragged Dick, the second of the four novels now reprinted, was the first of Alger's books (1868) to reach a wide public. It is a moral but lively story dealing with the rise to respectability of a homeless bootblack...