Word: risen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...field who has not been influenced by the Ellington style. His style contains the succinctness of concert music and the excitement of jazz. His revival comes at a time when most bandleaders who thrived in the golden '30s are partly or completely out of business,* and few have risen to replace them...
Bullock reckons that the median income of the Negro household in Houston has risen from $2,900 in 1940 to $4,016 today. One reason for the relatively high income is that Negro families frequently have more than one wage earner; one family in three has a second paycheck...
...Estes Kefauver, is now edging back toward the center of the national stage. St. Paul's Representative Eugene McCarthy (no kin to Joe) has begun organizing a Humphrey-for-Vice-President movement. Humphrey, an effective orator, is the champion of high, rigid farm supports. Although he has risen in the estimate of his Southern Senate colleagues (Georgia's Walter George offered to campaign for him in 1954), other Southerners recall vividly-and bitterly-his strident civil-rights performance at the 1948 convention. Humphrey's charter membership in Americans for Democratic Action is today something less than...
...Television has risen out of radio's golden age of mediocrity and has failed to develop its unique potential as a means of communication...
...result of the call for compulsory education in India's new constitution, the number of children attending school has risen by 20 percent, according to Kuppuswamy. The speaker, who has been chairman of a committee to promote Indian education, reported that the most difficult problem is getting parents to send their children to school...