Word: risen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than just the opening of the baseball season. One hundred years ago this spring a man named Abner Doubleday laid out the first baseball diamond on the Common at Cooperstown, New York. In the century since Doubleday baseball has risen to a position second to none in the sporting world. Every American child has smacked spheroid with hickory from the time he able to coordinate. Even the French and German papers run the American major league scores each day. Babe Ruth and Dizzy Dean are probably as well known as anybody in America, both here and abroad...
...cost of living has now risen and is still rising in France at such a rate that wages must obviously be further raised- members of the Chamber took time out recently to raise their own pay-and the new charter adopts a variant of the system existing in Belgium, where most labor contracts provide for automatic revision of wages up or down in step with the price index...
Under Pats the number of new Estonian farms carved out of the estates of former German aristocrats has now reached 60,000. Some 40,000 small Estonian farmers have risen from tenants to full ownership. Last week, two days after celebrating Estonia's 20th anniversary, Pats won, hands down, the first general election held under Estonia's new constitution...
...trading was due to an increase in odd-lot short sales caused by professional speculators seeking to avoid the new restriction of round-lot short selling which went into effect Feb. 8.* Lending weight to SEC's suspicion was the fact that short sales have risen from 7% to 10% of the odd-lot total since the new restrictions went into effect...
Virginia's gift to Harvard pugilism is big Henry Lamar, present mentor of all boxing activities, and junior varsity football coach. Under his careful supervision, boxing here has risen from almost complete insignificance, to be one of the most popular of minor sports. Even after the sport suffered a knockout blow last spring when further intercollegiate matches were banned, it has continued to draw a surprising amount...