Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only should our dress and speech improve considerably, but our social status should climb enormously. But we are worried that when we get to Yale we may not be socially acceptable, as we've been told at several Harvard-Yale football games (by young men with pipes, tweed jackets, and superior attitudes) that we were not shoe. This word has puzzled us for some time, but if we get to Yale we would no doubt learn very quickly. Won't it be grand to be a shoe, or is it shue...
...like thousands of my countrymen, about to leave "this demiparadise" for Canada, but I feel this would not be necessary if England would climb down from its already tottering pedestal and accept a little more of the good old American "know-how." May I now speak on behalf of many Britons when I say "Thank God for America...
EUROPEAN OIL CRISIS is over, even if reopening of Suez Canal is delayed, says Organization for European Economic Cooperation. Oil supplies flowing to Europe will probably reach 85% of normal in first 1957 quarter (v. expected 75%), climb to 95% in second quarter...
...pangs are particularly sharp at this time of year when we can wistfully watch young men climb tremulously up the cold concrete steps and into University Hall for their admission's interview. Ah, if we knew then what we think we know now. So many schemes come to mind on how to beat the interview system; that is, assuming we would really want to get into Harvard if we had another go-round...
...rest of the U.S.-the creeps. Setting a new record for the fifth month in a row, it crept up in January to a mark of 118.2 (the 1947-49 average = 100), thus stood .2 above December, 1.1 above September, and a sharp 3.6 above January 1956. The 3.6 climb in a single year seemed all the more creepy by contrast with the index's behavior during the first three Eisenhower years: twitching upward in some months and downward in others, it gained only .7 from early 1953 to early...