Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sport stars usually fall faster than they rise, and Gunder (''The Wunder") Hägg fell with a thud on last winter's U.S. tour. One slow time win in five tries was the best he could do, after training on hard surfaces had pounded the spring from his legs. When deflated Gunder got home, he went to Valadalen in northern Sweden, where he had trained in the palmy days of his 4:04.6 and 4:06.2 miles. Over trails quilted with moss and pine needles, he slowly coaxed the fjader (spring) back into his legs...
...Royal Commission investigated the specific question of marrying one's deceased wife's sister. The unanimous conclusion: such marriages "take place when a concurrence of circumstances gives rise to mutual attachment," therefore would not become more frequent if permitted by law. Nevertheless, the Table remained unchanged...
...deep mines of South Africa, air temperature sometimes reaches 95° F. with 98% humidity, and air moving at only 20 feet a minute. Under these conditions, workers' temperatures may rise to 101° or 102° because their sweat cannot evaporate and cool them...
Pittsburgh is the chosen scene of industrial empire and industrial strife; the steel-made fortune of the Scott family is cast together with the steel-made poverty of ironworker Pat Rafferty and family. The rise of Scott-hating Rafferty's daughter Mary as a maidservant in the Scott home, eventually to marry into the family, serves to weave the two sides of the railroad track into one history...
...bigwigs had all the incentive they need. The plan, he wrote, is actually a device to give executives a salary increase "not subject to ordinary income taxes" but only to capital-gains taxes (25%). For example, said angry Mr. Bloomingdale, if Fred Lazarus should make $50,000 by a rise in the price of any stock purchased, "he would retain $37,500 after payment of federal capital-gains tax. For Mr. Lazarus to be able to retain $37,500 a year out of any additional salary . . . subject to ordinary income taxes, his present salary would have to be increased more...