Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Will any WAACs, WAVEs, WAFs or SPARs rise to their defense...
...that event, Sir William's assumptions -that Britain's unemployment will never rise above 10% and that there will be the fullest international cooperation in post-war trade-may, one or both, prove to be entirely unfounded...
This book is a summary of American thought and American civilization from John Adams to Franklin Roosevelt. As the fourth volume in Charles and Mary Beard's monumental Rise of American Civilization, it tries to define-after 2,629 pages of history in the first three books-the civilization they have described...
...Magnitogorsk Scott saw factories rise out of the mud-watched a town of 2,000 mushroom into Russia's largest iron and steel stronghold, with an annual production of close to 3,000,000 tons. "Building Magnitogorsk from the ground up caused more casualties than the Battle of the Marne," he says. The story of that tremendous enterprise and its terrific toll in human lives and effort is in his first book, Beyond the Urals...
...great mass of discontented Italians . . . would rise...