Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps the passage in my Atlantic article which gave rise to your first statement is the sentence: "There is in the universe outside man, no spirituality, no regard for values, no friend in the sky." I do not think that any of us knows anything about the final mystery of the world, but if anyone pleases to call it God, I have no objection. The sentence quoted means that I do not think we have any reason anthropomorphically to attribute to it such human characteristics as spirituality, value-consciousness, or friendship...
...then He rise and fight againe...
Riding the Beam. Rockets, also replacing antiaircraft guns, will rise from the ground to chase the bombers. They will probably ride a movable radar beam kept trained on the bomber. Whether the bomber can dodge in time out of the deadly beam, or jam the missile's radio receiver before it seeks out its target, Mc-Narney does not say. The outcome of this contest between missiles and "inhabited" airplanes is anybody's guess...
...changed. With 600,000 ex-G.I.s and other new recruits added to the labor force since last year, the number looking for jobs was increasing considerably faster than the number of new jobs. Thus, even if employment picked up as much as expected, the number of jobless would rise almost as fast...
Some exhibitors, who see their profits shrinking, think differently. Said Abram Myers, chairman of the Allied States Assn. of Motion Picture Exhibitors: "If film rentals rise, admission prices will have to be increased; and thus the motion-picture industry will be handicapped in its race with competing amusements . . ." In Manhattan, some exhibitors are threatening to boycott Fox films. Even Fox's own Joe Schenck-now that he is to be only an exhibitor-may find himself on the other side of the bargaining fence...