Word: risen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government spent $2,500,000 on Arthurdale. The average income of the 165 families settled there is estimated to have risen from $467 to $1,020 a year...
...said one of the foremen, explaining it was at the base of the granite facing. However, 90 men working for the last two months have not been waiting for the cornerstone ceremonies. In the deep excavation on the site of the old Hemenway Gymnasium, the concrete foundations have already risen well above the ground...
...opera. He has shown in Heartbreak House, with its careful, elegant sets by John Koenig, that the sceneryless stage of Julius Caesar and The Cradle Will Rock was not the fetish of a flash in the Pantheon, but simply a well-timed theatrical stunt. The brightest moon that has risen over Broadway in years, Welles should feel at home in the sky, for the sky is the only limit his ambitions recognize...
Wrote Clark Rodenbach of the Chicago Daily News about the first-night audience: "If someone had called out 'Is there a doctor in the house?' the audience would have risen...
Congressman Gardner Robert Withrow of Wisconsin is a fourth cousin of Abraham Lincoln. Son of a Mississippi steamboat captain, he was born in La Crosse, Wis., 45 years ago, went to work after high school as a fireman for the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R.R. Nineteen years later he had risen to be a conductor, got into the Wisconsin Legislature with the support of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Next he acted as the Brotherhood's lobbyist in Madison, Wis. Then in 1930 he went to Congress as a Republican...