Word: upwards
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Governor Tom Dewey, who prides himself on an efficient administration, submitted his new budget for 1948-49. It was the highest in New York history. Inflation, which he blamed on the "serious confusion in national finances," had driven all costs upward. The budget called for appropriations totaling a whopping $799 million, $128 million more than last year...
Meanwhile, René Mayer's economic window-smashing had bewildered and frightened Frenchmen. Prices of oranges, chickens, beans, eggs skittered nervously upward. Many a thrifty soul with a sockful of 5,000-franc notes spent an anxious two days before he learned that the government would redeem his notes in full-if he could prove that he came by them legally. Said a Paris policeman: "This is a bitter pill, but we will have to swallow it. Let's hope it will save France...
...skipper. The fog into which he had raced at 26 knots, they said, had seemed like a mere wisp. Littler had used radar for eyes, and for once radar had proved to be blind. Radarmen said the fog might have caused an extremely rare phenomenon, shooting the radar waves upward so that a nearby target would be undetected. Pleaded Defense Counsel Roland Ritchie: "Is this man to be a martyr to this triumph of nature over science...
...imperious, when to recite statistics, when to tell a droll story. The Agricultural Adjustment Act was the result of Ed O'Neal's ideas. He "nominated" Henry Wallace for Secretary of Agriculture, backed his crop-control program ("Plow the little pigs under"), persistently pushed parity payments onward & upward...
Most recent expedition to what the appetites of the Club's over upward-looking group of mountaineers was last summer's successful ascent of three-mile-high Mount St. Elias, in Alaska, the fourth highest peak in North America. On the same campaign the HMC's eight-man party under William L. Putnam '45, added twenty-one more first ascents to the Club's long list of accomplishments fifteen of them in four days of climbing...