Word: upward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME erred, is happy to correct the figure upward. The maximum for complete loss of a leg, rated as 90% disability, is $138.50 a month...
...Castrator" mines planted by the Germans in Belgium and Holland. Small blocks of wood, fitted with a striker pin, hold a single rifle cartridge. When a man walking at normal stride steps on the trigger, the cartridge explodes, drives the slug violently upward...
Edstrom grants that "the Negro is still not a one hundred percent American citizen, although he has a lot of advantages which he never had before. His whole course has been upward and outward," he adds, however, "and no other race can show comparable progress...
...evenings of her life was the one, at a Georgetown prom, when she saw the reigning model of the day make a conquest of the floor. She decided immediately, she remembers, that if that was how it was done, she would do it. That decision led her swiftly onward & upward to New York and a job as a Powers model. Arrived with Powers, she was at the model's zenith and might have stayed there indefinitely. But nature had other plans for her, and other ways of carrying them...
...reasons why the Army had to revise its requirements sharply upward...