Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first news of Radcliffe's board hike came when the Council of Radcliffe mailed an announcement stating that it was raising rates to meet "advancing costs." Specifically, Dean Sherman explained that "the rapid rise in feed costs forced the board increase...
...President beamed and waved his gold-headed cane at the applause and finished his hike without drawing a deep breath; he topped the day off with a speech (see above) to 30,000 people who had gathered along the Mississippi riverfront to dedicate St. Louis' new park, the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial...
...first three months of 1950, General Motors Corp. earned $212,387,765 ($4.76 a common share), a 55% increase over 1949's first quarter. The profits, G.M. reported last week, were due to a 28% increase in sales to a record $1,642,659,449 and a 54% hike in production to 865,756 autos and trucks, a new high for the industry. But since G.M. faces new wage and pension demands from the U.A.W. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), it did not boost its $1.50 quarterly dividend to 433,000 hopeful G.M. stockholders...
...participation tickets, but this would be just one more step in making education more expensive. Another would be to make the tickets compulsory for all undergraduates, as they now are for freshmen, but this would probably put an extra tariff on those students who can least afford a hike in expenses...
Fervent geologists enjoy their work as much as their field work. It's theoretically possible to graduate with only five or six outdoors trips, but most majors like to hike over the Auburndale esker or spend an afternoon chopping tillite at Squantum Beach, and call it all schoolwork...