Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...significance of the new joint-defense arrangements lies not in the fact of their having been made but in their having been accepted in Canada without raising the indignant clamor that has invariably attended any effort to improve Canadian-American relations. This is a happy augury, and gives rise to the hope that bigotry and suspicion will not again raise their ugly heads when the two nations which have so much in common may again seek to remove some of the artificial barriers between them. Canada, indeed, may well be some day the bridge that will close the gap between...
Last week Britain admitted that certain airfields near the coast-along Hell's Corridor, that hot narrow path along which most raiders flew-were knocked out cold. But the R. A. F. maintained that Britain was still a tight little isle, and that fighters could rise to the defense from the London area and inland just as well as from the coast. If plane casualties were mounting, the R. A. F. replied that plane production was also mounting, and pilots could now fly their machines up to the hilt of action, then bail out if necessary...
...rapid improvement of converted end Joe Koufman and the rise of 147-pound Elisha Atkins and Joel Ferris, all at the running guard slot, have made that position well fortified. As a result, Coach Harlow can afford to give the stocky Junior a chance at tackle. Neither Don Lowry nor Tom Gardiner have quite been able to fill the hole left by Tom Healey's graduation, and tackle may prove to be a more logical spot for near-sighted Pfister than running guard...
...produce a discord which in the Middle Ages was regarded as the work of the devil. This discord is the augmented fourth (example: C and F sharp on the piano), was called the tritone because it spans three whole tones. The tritone was banned in sacred music, thus giving rise to a maxim: Mi contra fa est diabolus in musica (The tritone is the devil in music). When the sirens, beginning on a sweet major third or fifth, slip up and down into the bloodcurdling tritone, it sounds that way to Londoners...
Soon Salvationist Damon switched to soul-saving. His steady rise to the Eastern commissionership in 1935 paralleled the Army's own growth in the U. S.. Commissioner Damon, with piercing blue eyes, shock of white hair and resonant voice, played a leading role in that change. Since 1893 he has traveled 1,099,787 miles, spoken at countless thousands of meetings, made thousands of converts. Last month 900 sinners came forward at his meetings...