Word: risen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...machines have not only worked a change in farming methods but also in the entire U.S. farm economy. Since 1920, the number of U.S. farms has dropped from 6,500000 to 5,200,000, while the size of each has risen from 148 acres to an average of 215. The small farmer is dying out; the big farmer, with enough rolling, clanking machines to equip a tank platoon, has taken over his land, and farms it more efficiently In Iowa's Shelby County (587 sq. mi.) 138 farmhouses stand abandoned in the midst of fertile, machine-tilled fields...
Having established snails in cultural perspective, Cadart goes into more detail about their anatomy and their slippery lives. As mollusks risen from the sea and hardly adapted to the land, they are dependent on humidity. They prefer to travel and graze only when light rain is falling or when the ground is wet with dew. The rest of the time they sleep safely shut in their shells, sometimes sealed into them with a membrane of dried mucus. Their senses of touch and smell are acute, but the little eyes on the ends of their tentacles are not efficient; they must...
...been getting progressively older. Since the mid-18th century, medical progress has contributed to increasing longevity, while wars and depressions have contributed to reducing the birth rate. In 1775, 7% of the population was over 60; today 16.2% of French people are that old. The median age has risen slowly through the 19th century, is now 35.7 years, the oldest in the world...
...great surprise, the Commerce Department announced last week that during 1955's first quarter, the U.S. gross national product had risen to an annual rate of $370 billion, equaling the old record set in the second quarter of 1953. Now the big question is: How much higher will it rise...
Wolfson has risen to scholarly preeminence because his work, unlike his maelstrom-like study, is pervaded by an almost classic sense of detail and style. His prose is limpid. His manuscripts often have to wait years of careful research before he submits them to print. His research methods, although seemingly careless, have the same painstaking quality. After be graduated from Harvard in 1911, Wolfson went on a Sheldon Fellowship to Europe theoretically for pleasurable travel. He traveled alright, but from one library to another, Paris, Parma, Rome, and Cambridge, for a year and a half, reading copiously and taking detailed...