Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rise to remark that the dry conspiracy to establish Prohibition was just as "phony," but they put it over...
...college presidents began sending their sons there. Though Deerfield children could still come free, the academy became one of the top ten private prep schools in the U.S. (total charge: $1,600), with a waiting list as long as any. Exeter's Principal Lewis Perry described the rise of Deerfield under Frank Boyden as "magic." Yale gave Boyden an honorary degree "for his researches into the minds and hearts of boys...
...market gave the bears some mild encouragement; the Dow-Jones industrial average closed last week at 173.49. off 1.71 points. Did the big rise in "shorts" mean that the market was likely to keep on going down? Paradoxically, many Wall Streeters thought it meant just the opposite. They argued that any rise would scare the bears into "covering" (i.e., buy in the stocks they sold short), thus give the market an added boost. On the other hand, if the market dropped further, the bears would also buy so they could take their profits, thus check the drop...
...main issue was whether freshmen should hold junior executive positions on the Register. Gilbert maintained that they should--"this is a freshman book, freshmen should have a large say in running it." The publications men said that freshmen should heel the book their first year, and later rise to higher positions...
...life. For a few years he enjoyed the actor's supreme privilege of seeing men & women rolling in the aisles or being carried out in terrified swoons. Meanwhile, at the reading desk, the man who had as many voices as he had characters, could feel his pulse rise from 80 to 120 beats a minute as, in the person of Bill Sikes, he advanced on himself in the person of Nancy, and her dying "shrieks rang through the hall." Once offstage, Dickens would collapse...