Word: upward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the blackened stone houses lost in the darkness below, a single file of men tramped upward along a stony path. In sweet, mournful harmony they sang: "Guide me, O Thou great Redeemer, Pilgrim through this barren land. ..." For generations Welsh miners had gone to the pits singing the same hymn...
Under the new plan, member nations must fix the par value of their currencies in terms of gold or U.S. dollars, within a time limit fixed by the Fund, and cannot later revise the value more than 10% upward or downward without the approval of the Fund. France, by devaluing the franc, has come close to a realistic value. In many another country official valuations are nearly meaningless. Poland, which has hopefully signed the Fund agreement, still keeps an official value of 19? on the zloty, but recently a dollar would bring as much as 600 zlotys in Stettin. Greece...
...Toledo had a deadly two-handed overhand set-shot artist; diagnosis showed that rushing him as soon as he made an upward motion upset his timing by a split second-all that was necessary...
...Britain's birth rate, after a wartime upward flurry, was down again. Unless the long-term trend is reversed, 45,000,000 Britons may dwindle...
Gauss resigned soon after Hurley's arrival. But Vincent went on and upward, became-by Byrnes's appointment-Far Eastern chief. Ambassador Hurley began to receive instructions which he considered detrimental to his mission and at variance with U.S. policy as he understood...