Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Homer turned his narrow back on the world, to spend his remaining 26 years alone in a storm-racked house on the Maine coast. "The Sun will not rise, or set," he wrote contentedly to a friend, "without my notice, and thanks." His thanks were fathoms-deep seascapes and the flashing watercolors-mostly painted on hunting trips into the north woods and winter excursions to the Bahamas-on which his fame now rests...
...reduced the price 20% on its leading portable model. There was little doubt that department-store buying, which had lagged since Christmas, was well down from the peak. Last week's sales were only 9-13% in dollar volume above those of a year ago. Counting the price rise in a year, current unit sales are probably below last year...
...stipend of $2,400 existing in but six states, the nation's average teacher's pay is a scant $36 dollars per week. Recent college surveys reveal that graduates are by-passing the teaching profession for very hard-headed economic reasons. Yet, if the quality of teaching is to rise (360,000 teachers have not gone beyond the college sophomore level) it is precisely these educated people who must be attracted and held. The states are responsible for education, but mere historical precedent cannot allow the Federal government to shirk a financial role any longer. For education, unlike bridges...
...till World War II. It was then that George had his moment of greatness. When the Greek people inspired the world by fighting against Italy with Thermopylaean courage, George found stirring words to lead them (before he had to flee the country): "All together, men, women, children of Hellas, rise up, clench your fists, stand at my side to defend the country . . . soldiers in the vanguard of that freedom which has sprung from the sacred bones of the Greeks. Forward, sons of Hellas, in the fight for body and soul...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2-5:35 p.m., ABC). Bizet's Carmen, with Mezzo-Soprano Rise Stevens, Tenor Ramon Vinay...