Word: risen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tuberculosis is more infectious than leprosy," declared Dr. Muir. But leprosy is more amenable to treatment. Drugs arrest the progress of leprosy, but they do not cure. They are simply "useful adjuncts" to good food and plenty of vitamins. Just as useful as chaulmoogra oil, upon which hopes have risen high, is "any kind of counterirritant. Acids painted on the leper's body sometimes cause the cells to react, multiply, and eat up the bacilli...
...plainer boom portent has been seen than the recent upward surge in prices, Moody's commodity index having risen 20% in the past six months. Wheat at $1.25 per bu. last week was at a six-year high, cocoa at 11¼? per Ib. at a seven-year high, rubber at 19? per Ib. at a seven-year-high...
...Berliner Theatre when Josef von Sternberg saw her. After the show he went backstage-the squat, little man with a sharp face and Mephistophelean mustache. The strange career of Josef von Sternberg was just coming into its exotic bloom. Born Joe Stern in Vienna, Austria in 1894, he had risen from the cutting room, gambled his savings in a freelance silent picture, Salvation Hunters. Fame had come with The Last Command, Dragnet, Docks of New York, The Case of Lena Smith, Thunderbolt. He was in Germany to make one picture for UFA. He had been looking for a leading woman...
...risen steadily. She got $200,000 for Allah. Figured on a picture rather than a weekly basis, she is Hollywood's highest-paid woman, the highest-salaried woman in the world. There is no doubt of her being a loving mother. Old friends tell how anxiously, when Maria was abroad, Dietrich waited for a letter containing the child's first tooth. When at last the denticle arrived Dietrich put it in her mouth and carried it there for several days. Despite the scintillating quality of her male escorts, the world's No. 1 glamour girl is definitely...
...railroads east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio may provide free store-to-door service, offer the 5? self-delivery discount. Key to the decision-a signal victory for the railroads-was the discovery by the I. C. C. that less-than-carload shipments had risen briskly in the West and Southwest, thus proving that the public wanted the service...