Word: risen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government's worry over the breakdown of its educational system was added another worry-evacuation's cost. The Government pays ten shillings, sixpence a week for each child's keep. Last week, evacuation's bill having risen already to well over $500,000,000, the Ministry of Health was considering imposing a means test, making families that could afford it pay for their children's country board...
...this delicate situation, the outcome, he estimated, would be determined by whether businessmen encourage buying by holding prices down or discourage buying by boosting prices. He pointed out that although the U. S. is short of neither materials, labor, nor capital, the prices of raw materials have ominously risen 10% since August...
...percentage of honors candidates has risen slightly above, last year's. This fall's 47 per cent figure, however, is the highest since the adoption of Plan B tutorial...
...neutrality revision plan had fallen from 89% three weeks ago to 76% last fortnight. From 73% in the first week of World War II, the desire of U. S. editors to keep out of Europe's quarrel had later dropped to 51% (while 21% roundly abused Hitler), risen again by month...
...Berlin, and in 1900, aged 19, became a lieutenant in the Royal Elizabeth Guard Grenadiers. The Grenadiers wore corsets and led a gay social life; Lieutenant Brauchitsch, whose nature was somewhat more vigorous, persuaded his father to get him transferred to an artillery regiment. By 1914 he had risen to the rank of captain. Throughout the four years of World War I he remained a General Staff officer, saw no fighting. In 1918 he shared the fate of thousands of other officers and was relegated to the reserve corps, his career apparently...