Word: rising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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American History is a peculiarly suitable province for such academic pursuits because the problems that face us all cannot be understood without some historical perspective. Crop control, John Lewis's C. L. O., and the President's foreign policy can be most intelligently discussed by those familar with the rise of Populism, the history of craft unionism, and the conditions prevalent when Washington counseled his country against entangling alliances. More tolerance to new policies that seem to clash with old American customs may develop when we realize that many accepted reforms like free education, the limitation of hours of labor...
...most serious rise has been in the price of meat. The less expensive cuts are up ten percent over last year, while such items as sirloin steak are 35 percent higher. Although sirloin steak may possibly be rarer in the future, Westcott disclosed that the University would still serve ten tons of roast beef every month...
...Teresa Deevy; Abbey Theatre Players, producers). While a second-string company keeps Dublin audiences happy and the Irish Free State satisfied that its subsidy is not being wasted, the renowned Abbey Theatre Players last week began an extended season in the U. S. Less sanctified since the competitive rise of the lively Dublin Gate Theatre, the Abbey is still a criterion for rounded ensemble playing...
...parallel to the inflation that has skyrocketed the value of John Steinbeck first editions, bibliophiles must turn to the classic rise in the price of calves' liver, once given away in most butcher shops, currently selling at 85? a Ib. Distributed free to Publisher Covici-Friede's friends last Christmas, Author Steinbeck's St. Katy the Virgin, a short story, is now quoted at $10. Published last fortnight in an edition limited to 699 autographed, de luxe copies, Novelist Steinbeck's latest work, The Red Pony, was quoted at $10 a copy, and no man knew...
...farmed out as cheap labor) building dams and breakwaters, reconstructing shorelines and adding to continents; newt-conscious intellectuals and artists, newt-inspired cinemas and musical comedies; newt-problems before the League of Nations. End comes, of course, when the newts, armed by now and tired of it all, rise against their masters and begin blowing up dams, breakwaters, shorelines and continents while mankind, in a dither, retreats to the mountains. There Author Capek (pronounced Chah-peck) leaves them, with the issue for mankind still in doubt, but definitely ominous-looking...