Word: soar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like Mr. Chips, old Charlie Donkin (Frederick Leister) is a housemaster at an English boarding school, adored by the boys for his crusty wisdom. Suddenly three frolicsome girls with their aunt come to live with him, turn everything arsy-versy. The high jinks soar highest when the three little minxes throw a midnight spread in their bedroom and ask a few of the boys to drop in. Right in the midst of their lark who should appear but old Donkin himself, mad as a hornet...
Even if Columnist Winchell's figure had been true, which it apparently was not, 4.2, * while far short of the great variety shows' ratings which soar into the 30s, is about equal to the 4 average of the highly popular Philadelphia Orchestra. But NBC officials, smoked out, declared that Toscanini's rating was 9.1, which is on a par with the score of the New York Philharmonic's Sunday afternoon broadcasts...
...perceived, would live in a world where grassblades would be as wide as a highway and would tower hundreds of feet in the air. Crickets twenty-four feet long would crawl through the grassroot jungles. Moths, with wings stretching more than 100 feet from tip to tip, would soar through the air at dusk. Bushes would have the appearance of frowning cliffs; trees of invincible mountains. So the world must appear to a ladybug as it peers nearsightedly about...
Last winter when business and stockmarket were soaring the balance of expert opinion held that stocks would suffer a spring slump, then recover to soar through the fall. Sure enough, the slump started in March, and, assisted by cold water from President Roosevelt, the crack-up of the British commodity boom and the unhappy state of the nation's labor relations, reached bottom in June. For two months thereafter all was well enough, save for the extreme thinness of stock and bond trading. On Aug. 14 Dow-Jones industrial averages reached a high of 190 for the summer. Then...
...policy, which was shaped by Editor Freda Kirchwey and her colleagues, Joseph Wood Krutch and Max Lerner. Under the Foundation's patronage, The Nation treated itself to a new format, the cartoons of brilliant David Low. With pinko-liberalism rampant in the land, circulation began to soar...