Word: upward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britons, G. L. Mallory and A. C. Irvine, climbed up to 27,000 ft. and pitched camp. There they left their three porters and pushed upward into the mists. Whether they reached the top will probably never be known; they were never seen again. In 1933, the Marquess of Clydesdale (now the Duke of Hamilton) made the first flight over the mountain...
...religion is a chariot, it looks as if the wheels on which it mounts towards Heaven may be the periodic downfalls of civilization on Earth. It looks as if the movement of civilization may be cyclic and recurrent, while the movement of religion may be on a single continuous upward line. The continuous upward movement of religion may be served and prompted by the cyclic movement of civilizations round the cycle of birth-death-birth...
Optimists took heart from the fact that six successive days of 1,000,000-share-plus trading, which meant a lot of profit-taking by those who had bought stocks at their lows, had failed to drive prices down. Whether the market had the strength for a further shove upward was still to be shown. At week's end, with the Dow-Jones industrials up only .83 for the week's 5,710,000-share turnover, Wall Street's crystal ball was still as cloudy as ever. This week it was further clouded by a strike...
Pessimist: A nine-year upward movement is quite without parallel in American economic history. It must be near...
Optimist: Maybe this is the longest upward movement ever known. Why shouldn't it be? It has also covered by far the largest war in history. Is it really conceivable that all the damage and dislocation caused by the war could be put right in less than three years from...