Word: rising
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...plot. A score like this can never represent any very important emotional contribution on the part of a composer; at best it is a facile hashing-up of some admittedly marvelous themes. Other Hollywood composers experimented with the leit-motif system, but this failed because it gave rise to some very absurd effects, such as that of a chase in which the music switched back from the pursued to the pursuer with every move of the camera. The leit-motif was abused, rather than used by composers for greater unity...
...third in the next six months, manufacturers said they would have to hire more men (71.1%), get a longer work week (38.3%), curb the labor unions (29.5%), train skilled labor (30.6%), increase the production of supplies (26%), get new financing (19.9%). If rearmament or war started a sharp rise in prices, some (34.7%) executives thought the Government should fix prices, others (24.9%) favored a voluntary move on the part of trade associations to hold prices down, others (26.7%) were willing to let prices find their own levels...
...leave 200 feet of open water. The 25 concrete pontoons are honeycombed with watertight compartments. From both sides of each floating section a 65-ton reinforced concrete anchor juts into the clay bottom of the lake. Hydraulic adjustments on the anchor cables accommodate the bridge to the rise & fall of the lake level (it varies about three feet in a year...
Continuing its steady rise in enrollment figures for the last few years, Economics A has now passed History 1 as the most popular survey course in the College, having 512 students compared with 462 in History 1, according to figures released yesterday from University Hall...
...combined a sense of social responsibility rare in the experience of economic classes who possess such tremendous power." The frustration by industry of New Deal efforts toward recovery, and indeed the very conditions of profiteering and speculation which contributed to the depression that in turn gave rise to the New Deal, cast doubt on the validity of this assertion. Even more recent is the refusal of American businessmen to cooperate with the defense program until taxes have been adjusted to suit them, while Henry Ford's attitude in the matter of airplane contracts was hardly worthy of the designations "democratic...