Word: risen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...busy at a secret job or out of favor, was obviously still No. 2 man in the U.S.S.R. With Stalin absent he had the place of honor among the mourners. Close by him was pudgy Georgi Malenkov, confirming by his position that in the U.S.S.R. hierarchy he had risen...
More pennants have gone to Philadelphia than to any other city. But the number of pennants sent out has risen steadily through the years as news of the service has spread to youths all over...
Last week, 58-year-old Leland Olds found these old words still echoing in the ears of Congress. In the years since, he had risen to a position of power. As the dominant member of the Federal Power Commission for the past ten years, he had toughened Government regulation of utilities, helped cut wholesale natural gas and electricity rates by $40.6 million a year, successfully fought legislation to exempt the rich natural-gas business from federal control. In short, he had made himself the power lobby's No. 1 candidate for political electrocution...
Since that first year of the Atomic Age, methods of observing such effects have improved enormously. U.S. airplanes, patrolling the perimeter of the U.S.S.R., were equipped to collect enough radioactive dust in air filters or electrostatic precipitators to prove that an atomic cloud had risen somewhere in the interior. Ground observers in some such place as Alaska could have spotted the cloud's radioactivity by means of instruments...
...inherent strength. But there were plenty of bears around. Not in 17 years, in fact, has Wall Street been so full of them-if the number of short sales is any index'. The New York Stock Exchange reported that, as of Sept. 15, short sales had risen 127,581 shares in a month to a total of 2,133,700, the biggest since Aug. 4, 1932, when the total stood at 2,151,840. The bears were wrong then. Only a month before, the market had hit bottom, and was already on a five-year climb destined to total...