Word: rising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...endeavor to grasp some of the fleeting beauty of the spring tide. There are no speculators hawking tickets on the fifty, for there are no seats. There is no wild cheering, no drunken shouting, only the bursting applause rings out under the trees to punctuate the intermission. What emotions rise in the hearts of the people are unexpressed, but taken away into the night to add to their sense of beauty and joy in life...
Young Merriwell, whose meteoric rise to glory was capped with leadership of four major sport teams and membership in Yale's most sacred societies left Yale in his Junior year much to the bitter disappointment of many, many hero-worshipping Elis...
...depths of the last depression, the railway unions voluntarily took a 10% pay cut, which has since been restored and garnished with a further 7½% rise. Now, as the A. A. R. last week pointed out, the railroad situation is even worse than in 1932. In January 1938 the railroad operating net was 32% under January 1932. Last week the first 37 roads to report March earnings showed an aggregate decrease of 80% from last year. First quarter earnings reports indicated staggering losses in almost every case. Samples...
...even a myth, its activities are so very inconspicuous. But such an organization does exist and there is full excuse for its being. It is only to be deplored, in the light of inter-House conflicts and inter-House ignorance, that it does not fulfill its office and rise from the grave of impotence...
...STRAIN and WOLVERINE BLUES (Louisiana Rhythm Kings and Benny Goodman's Boys; Hot Record Society, 308 Fifth Ave., Manhattan). These rare and exciting discs, recorded in 1929, are repressed by the Society to illustrate "the rise of the Boogie Woogie and the emergence of the Chicago Style." Boogie woogie is characterized by heavy offbeat bass and repetitive melody...