Word: upping
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Up stood pretty Mrs. Ethel Akiyama, 35, a Multigraph operator who has been with Hawaiian Pineapple for 20 years. She wore a pineapple-patterned dress and a white carnation lei, and she was barefooted. Said she earnestly: "Business is a team of people. Some of the people are stockholders; some...
The U.S. last week stepped up its economic war on China. It forbade any American ship to call at any Red China port, and froze Red China funds in the U.S. or in U.S.-controlled territory. Earlier, the Department of Commerce had clamped down on trading with all Iron Curtain...
While Scotland Yard, aided by the professor's daughter and his young colleague, directs a nip & tuck hunt for the man and his bomb, the cabinet secretly orders the machinery of evacuation oiled up. Rumor gives the public a bad case of war jitters. Then, crowded by the professor...
Crane's only esthetic creed was "honesty." He did much to release American fiction from the cocoon of euphemism and sentimentality. Technically, he was an Impressionist. Like Flaubert, Chekhov and James, he aimed for "the immediate sense of life, not the removed report." He himself never achieved that summit...
In 1848, Margaret and Katie Fox, two mischievous little girls of Hydesville, N.Y., thought up a way to mystify their ma. In bed at night they tied an apple to a string and bumped it loudly on the floor. Hearing the sonorous raps, Mrs. Fox climbed upstairs to investigate, and...