Word: risen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...September, 1957, when Harvard Student Agencies appeared as headquarters for and overseer of student business enterprises in the University, only 14 agencies were in operation. In its first two years, H.S.A. has collected 27 agencies under its ample wing, and the number of students employed has risen from 58 to 390, their net earnings from...
Ever since the war, and particularly in the last ten years, applications to the College have risen sharply. The growing ratio of opplications to admissions made it necessary to form a working "policy of selectivity"--a set of criteria, however vague. And the possibilities of a hand-picked class encouraged extensive speculation, both within the Admissions staff and among other administrators, about the ideal Harvard class...
Nixon's stock seems to have risen over the summer, according to a comparison of this poll with one taken last spring...
...strong sense of the Judaic tradition often seem to hold it as a sort of super-intense patriotism." Conservative Rabbi Hertzberg (of Temple Emanu-El, Englewood, N.J.) denies both these statements. American Jews may be losing their identity as an ethnic minority, but the percentage affiliated with synagogues has risen strikingly. Many of the new members seek togetherness rather than real religion, but Hertzberg thinks Christian sects have similar problems...
...drab British factory towns dominated so long by "dark, Satanic mills" have a striking new landmark: the government-maintained school. More than 4,000 new buildings have risen in the last decade. They are telling symptoms of a quiet revolution wrought by the historic Education Act of 1944. Under the act, British schooling ceased to be an upper-class privilege. Today any child mentally able to make the grade is entitled to a free secondary and university education, a situation unthinkable in caste-bound Britain before World...