Word: risen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been turned, a handful of lawyers and laymen have been trying to improve the courts of the U.S. A leader in this fight is Chief Justice Arthur T. Vanderbilt of the New Jersey Supreme Court, a distinguished jurist and the head of a state court system that has risen from one of the nation's worst to one of the best in ten years. Judge Vanderbilt notes that although some jurisdictions have made great improvements in the last two decades, in others the judges are substandard, procedures are unnecessarily complex, and court administration is inefficient. In a brilliant series...
...years that the Communist Party has ruled the Soviet Union, Russia has successfully risen to be the second greatest industrial power in the world. But in that same 37 years, this once great literary leader has slipped to an insignificant level in the world of creativity--a decline caused largely by the same factors which brought about the industrial rise...
...fact that they are inherently unstable because they are at war with our only trustworthy way of living in accord with the facts. For it is only by trial and error, by insistent scrutiny and by readiness to re-examine presently accredited conclusions that we have risen, so far as in fact we have risen, from our brutish ancestors, and in our loyalty to these habits lies our only chance, not merely of progress, but even of survival. They were not indeed a part of our aboriginal endowment: Man, as he emerged, was not prodigally equipped to master the infinite...
Since Admiral started up its first automated production line, it has been able to cut the price of its 24-in. TV set from $349.50 to $229.50. Instead of cutting employment, as some union opponents of automation fear, automation has increased production so much that overall employment has actually risen...
...example, 1,200 undergraduates concentrated in this field. By last year, although the number of students in the College had risen by more than a thousand, their numbers had fallen below 900. It is difficult to say what determines undergraduate concentrations . . . but the apparent lack of appreciation from which the humanities seem to suffer in the eyes of today's undergraduates is disturbing...