Word: risen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remarkable fact that in the few weeks since the election the prestige and power of President Eisenhower have risen steeply. This has happened in spite of the fact that the most significant Democratic gains were in the territory where the Republican party is most strongly pro-Eisenhower. Why, nevertheless, is the President's power growing? Primarily because the elections have put an end to his attempts to do the impossible-namely to unite the two wings of his party under his leadership...
...technical masterpiece in the new Technicolor, proved that Disney was ready at last for the task he had set himself: to make a full-length cartoon feature. It had long been his heart's desire, but by this time it was a business necessity; cartoon costs had risen so high that it was no longer possible to make a profit with shorts. So he borrowed $1,500,000 and made Snow White. Released in 1937, it was one of the biggest hits that Hollywood had produced since The Birth of a Nation. It grossed...
With strikingly individual Eartha Kitt-risen from blues-singing to stardom-playing Teddy in a darting, prickling style, Mrs. Patterson has more in its favor than a sympathetic theme and a sharp approach. Yet the play as a whole is curiously flat and eventually tedious. The fault springs from nothing genteel or unhumorous in treatment: the authors squarely face Teddy's conflicts long before she does. Nor need the play's want of real movement, its mere alternations between fact and fantasy, prove fatal. But lacking outward progression, Mrs. Patterson needs real leverage of words, real voltage...
...Bacteriology at the graduate School of Arts and Sciences during an era, as he says, when "there weren't very many men who took that sort of a degree." In 1930 he won his Doctorate and simultaneously became an instructor in the Department of Bacteriology and Immunology. He had risen to the position of assistant professor by the time he was teaching a young sophomore medical student named Weller...
...Central 1½ points to 25¼; Union Carbide 4⅛ to 84¾. By week's end, the Dow-Jones industrial average was up nearly 10 points to 387.79. rounding off a post-election rise of 33.83 points. Since the beginning of the year, the average had risen more than 100 points, or some...