Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the forecasted period of prosperity, Slichter warned that the United States can expect an annual price rise of 20 to 80 percent. Technological advances will be unable to keep pace with demands for wage boosts, and industry will maintain its profit margin by smelling prices...
...Kizer, of the University of Washington's political science department, is the keynote of much of the mail we have received as a result of TIME'S March 17th cover story on Britain's Philosopher-Historian Arnold J. Toynbee and his monumental work on the rise & fall of civilizations...
...Chinese say that their painting is "like vapors and clouds which rise into space, gather around cliffs and drift over wide expanses...
This is a de luxe anthology written by bookworms for bookworms. The only wolf calls in its pages rise when a bug-eyed bibliomaniac spots an unescorted Gutenberg Bible or First Folio Shakespeare. With the knowingness of a convention of beekeepers discussing the nuptial flight of the queen, 40-odd bibliophiles talk about the designing, the collecting, the stealing and the forging of books. Some of the highlights...