Word: soaring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first signs of war in most European cities were lean newspapers. Stripped of their usual verbiage, they were cut down to eight or twelve or 16 pages, in Poland to one sheet. Object (see p. 19): to save newsprint. Many a U. S. publisher, watching his circulation figures soar as fat editions pushed each other off his presses, wondered if presently he too might not feel a paper shortage, followed by rising prices. In World War I newsprint went from $40 a ton to a 1920 peak...
Question Mark. It is this vast, untapped, bookless audience that most excites those concerned with increasing U. S. book-reading. It has been claimed that if a way could be found to irrigate this desert, U. S. book sales would soar by 85%. Most observers agree that there are only two possible channels for this irrigation: 1) cheaper books, 2) better distribution...
High on our glittering silver wings, We carry the flag of the Rising Sun, And wherever we may soar, No sign of enemy planes...
...long before Vag climbs (mentally)into the cockpit of his sailplane--one of those white gull-winged ones that soar so silently over the countryside, miraculously holding itself off from the sordid earth beneath. Vag shoots into the air, makes use of several tricky thermals, then skillfully maneuvers the ship in a tight spiral under a great heavy cumulus cloud...
...crop of runners & jumpers who came East last week have been undefeated this season. Outstanding sprinter is Adrian Talley, who lived up to expectations by winning the 100-yd. dash last week. Outstanding pole vaulters, curiously enough, are another pair of "Trojan Twins," Loring Day and Kenneth Dills. Both soar 14 ft., 3 in. with ease, and Day's recent vault of 14 ft., 7 in. is the top pole-vaulting performance of the year. Although Day & Dills kept in trim during the transcontinental trip by chinning on a bar stretched across the Pullman aisle, they could not break...