Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nelson stated that defense spending, now at the rate of about $21,000,000,000 a year, must rise to $40,000,000,000-nearly half the present national income...
...Rise And Shine (20th Century-Fox). Jack Oakie is back in the lineup. His cleats haven't scuffed a gridiron since he won his last P at Paramount a decade ago. Those were the days of the great Paramount teams, starring such rugged individuals as Buddy Rogers, Richard Arlen, Mary Brian. Now a tubby 38, Oakie turns out to be the back-of-the-year at his new alma mater...
...slaphappy, overlong mixture of You Can't Take It With You, Rackety Rax and assorted gags, Rise And Shine in no way resembles the original on which it was based: Humorist James Thurber's My Life and Hard Times. But it has enough good farce to make it go - especially Walter Brennan's portrayal of a glandular octogenarian with a propensity for showing his Civil War etchings to willing blondes...
Made up of the military clique, Prussian Junkers, industrialists, and many men in the fields of education and justice, this same minority has been responsible for both World Wars, the sabotage of the post-war Republic, and the rise of Hitler, he explained. Their destruction, and the nationalization of Germany's essential industries, are prerequisites to any reconstruction, stated Pol, who has recently written a book on this subject...
...Harvard about 300 students annually took the corrective exercises, but only about 200 were required to take them because of incorrect posture. The remainder were either freshmen volunteers or upperclassmen who wanted to continue the exercises they had taken in freshman year. Each year, according to Fradd, about 75% rise to an "A" or "B" rating and about 15% rise to a "C"; the rest remain stationary...