Word: upward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost 2 a.m. when, accompanied by Alben Barkley, he made his entrance into the hall. The delegates stood and cheered. Harry Truman laughed with the crowd as a sudden swarm of pigeons flew around him (see below), then adjusted the microphones upward. The photographers howled; the raised microphones obscured their view of Harry. "I am sorry that [they] are in your way," said the President, "but they have to be where they are because I've got to be able to see what I'm doing-as I always am able to see what I am doing...
China stirred fitfully, like a patient in a coma. The fever line of inflation shot upward-on the Shanghai bourse last week it took nearly 4,500,000 Chinese dollars to buy one U.S. dollar. The Chinese themselves were delighted when G.O.P. Nominee Tom Dewey promptly declared (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) that one of his first aims was to get "military advisers . . . material . . . far greater financial assistance" to China. But many feared the patient might be dead by Inauguration...
Getting the information was no airborne picnic. The planes that did the job were tough, night-fighting Black Widows. They "penetrated" 1,600 thunderclouds, often coming out with their noses deep-dented by hail. The worst gust encountered blew at 43 ft. per second (29 m.p.h.) almost directly upward. Said the pilot who flew through it: "The jolt was so severe I thought I had collided with another plane. I was unable to keep my hands on the controls, they banged around so much...
...Inner Light is not human conscience or human reason, but is above both, illuminating reason and sensitizing conscience. "It is," Howard Brinton has written in one of the Pendle Hill pamphlets, "that Creative Power which first dawned upon chaos and which draws all things upward into nobler states of being." It is also the source of inspiration of the Bible and of all saints and holy men-the perpetual power which makes possible a continuing revelation. It is for illumination by the Inner Light that Quakers wait in silence in their meetings. For its wider working in the world they...
Board rates could conceivably join tuition and rent in their upward march next fall, Administrative Vice-President Reynolds indicated yesterday...