Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...applauded this scene in a performance of Puccini's opera La Tosca. They found in it an emotional release from their own pent-up bitterness and frustration under police tyranny. And never, they said, had the role been acted so realistically. It never had. The curtain did not rise again. Neither did the Baron. Petit Parisien reported that in the excitement of the performance the villain had actually been stabbed...
...Rate of first admissions to state mental hospitals due to senility increased between 1912 and 1936 from 7.7 to 49 per 100,000 of population over 40 years of age-a rise of more than...
...demand for a $2 pay rise was not going as smoothly* as a somewhat similar demand back in 1941 which he won hands down. Jimmy Byrnes, the War Labor Board, the President and the country were lined up against him. Nothing would be lost, much might be gained by getting back into the Federation...
...This Tuesday afternoon WLB turned the $2 rise down flat, but offered other concessions: 1) $50 vacation pay instead of $20; 2) an estimated saving of 15 cents a day by making the operators pay for tools; 3) an offer to okay a "reasonable" deal to be worked out by collective bargaining on portal-to-portal...
...There was tall Major Bernard Ferguson, who left a lieutenant colonelcy on Field Marshal Sir Archibald Wavell's staff to lead a column of raiders. When he watched the Bonchaung railway bridge rise in a cloud of smoke and then settle into the gorge, the Major said softly: "Now I know that all my life I've wanted to blow up bridges...