Word: upward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vast pillar with 121 entwined figures, carved out of a single 200-ton piece of granite. My four-year-old boy described it as "a pretend chimney with monkeys." Vigeland put it differently: "The monolith is my religion." Most observers think that he was trying to show humanity struggling upward, but since he never explained, it is also possible that he intended to show humanity losing its grip...
...Maine, New York University's Professor Raymond Rodgers told a bankers' meeting: "We are at, or very near, the end of the long upward swing...
Upturn. Industrial prices were still edging upward. International Harvester boosted prices of its farm tractors 9% and Philco Corp. raised its radio prices 2.5%, even though the radio market was swamped with sets...
...stock market, already nervous over the news from Berlin (see INTERNATIONAL), promptly went into a new decline, certain that the new curb would edge interest rates upward and increase the cost of doing business. In two days, the Dow-Jones industrial average fell 2.29 points to 180.61 in the heaviest selling in weeks. But bankers doubted whether FRB's action would tighten credit much. There was too much money in circulation and too many big non-bank lenders, e.g., insurance companies, ready to fork out cash. New York's National City Bank Monthly Letter said that a practical...
...will clasp a man who comes too close and break his body. The blast roaring out the tail will knock a man down at 150 ft. The reaction of the speeding jet of gas pushes against the test stand with a two-ton thrust. If the engine were pointing upward and left unshackled, it would take off like a rocket, each pound of its weight overbalanced by more than two pounds of thrust...