Word: upward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Young man on the right, my Young readers," and the Sage of the Age, and a very Young age it is too, "is Leeward Skreindler, Young Dartmouth politics, cheerleader, and vendor of hand-painted ties. When not practicing the old locomotive, Skreindler is prone to wend his way upward on the political ladder two, Youngs at a time...
...does suggest that the Russian failure to make use of their 1926-27 price level measurements as they claim they are doing leads to many serious distortions. Because of war devastation, and the resulting inflation of the ruble, evaluation of new production has "a substantial upward bias," in the report's wording...
...without meals, with an inference that this cost is the lowest rate. This is definitely not correct. The lowest rates at Sun Valley Lodge last winter for single occupancy in bachelors' quarters were $6.50 a day without bath. . . . The rates at the Portillo Hotel range upward from $9 a day for each occupant of a room which must be shared with another occupant, and go up to $15 a day. . . . Single occupancy is estimated from...
...times, as in "Simon Prophesying Over the infant Christ," the composition seems artificial and the colors weak. The composition of all the works is contrived, but Blake usually uses his contemporary conventions to produce a heightened effect, and only seldom does he fail. Generally the movement flows upward and inward toward the center, where often a great figure of good or evil protects or destroys. Sometimes the composition is unconventional, as in "Lucia Carrying Dante in his Sleep," where the strange, vivid seen, the striking composition, and the ennobled character of the figures make one realize that William Blake...
...After that paralyzing moment the plane gained forward momentum. Two hundred and fifty feet below, the sea looked like a huge vanilla milk-shake in a mixer. All around, for a hundred miles in any direction and for possibly 20,000 feet upward, was the hurricane. We were in the center...