Word: upwards
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...proud mammoth was a sorry grotesque sight. One wing, stripped of its covering, stretched its blackened framework upward at a crazy angle. The other, now unbalanced, dipped its weight into the sea. The hull was blackened, much of the interior flooded. Said Captain Friedrich Christiansen, returning from his shore visit, "It's hard luck, but our ocean trip will not be called off. It is only delayed...
...sayeth the Vagabond this fair morning, have individual cycles of greatness. There was the English department, which boasted of Briggs, Copeland, Perry, Hurlbut, and countless others. The Vagabond had spasms of fear last spring that the glory that was English was beginning to suffer a tangible decline. For such upward trends, symbolized by the youthful Murdock and Matthiessen, he is thankful...
Will H. Hays, cinema tsar: "We are gathering momentum for an upward swing that will lead the world recovery. American prosperity will rearise, not pale and wan, from the sickbed of wasting remedies but strong and vigorous...
...compressed-air booster* to "kick over" the sluggish pistons. Instantly the compressed-air tank and the engine burst, the explosion throwing the crew and their one passenger 40 ft. to the ground, wrecking the fore part of the gondola, scattering a shrapnel of splinters. Flames from the carburetor shot upward but burned out without igniting the hydrogen-filled...
...publicity has marked the steady expansion of Gray Telephone Pay Station Co. Yet every year since 1922 has shown a gain in Gray's profits, swelling the $287,000 of that year to $935,000 in 1929. Liberal dividends have marked this upward march. In 1925 there was the regular $20 cash dividends, a $15 extra, a 100% stock dividend. In 1926 the extra dividend was only $5, but there was another 100% stock distribution. The next year brought stockholders an extra $10; the next an extra $15. In 1929 they received another extra $15, a 25% stock dividend...