Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...M.P.s sat silent and ill at ease because there was nothing more to be said, Sampson Cluse rose and cleared his throat. Then, in a quiet voice, he asked the Speaker whether all members should not rise and pay silent testimony to their horror and their determination to defeat Hitler. The Speaker ruled that the suggestion was unprecedented but that the members could rise voluntarily...
...likewise urging Bolivia to stand pat on present wage levels. His charge: U.S. Ambassador Pierre de Lagarde Boal had discussed the new labor code with President Peñaranda "for the obvious purpose of delaying the application of the wage provisions. . . . Clearly his purpose was to head off a rise in the cost of tin to the U.S. . . . The American Government is placing itself in the position of attempting to aid in the denial of those rights of labor organization and collective bargaining which are commonplace...
...Manufacturers' annual meeting into a gloomy near-flop last fortnight (TIME, Dec. 14). But last week N.A.M.'s new President Frederick Coolidge Crawford echoed the constructive half of Mr. Lippmann's thesis. Up to then tall, lean Frederick Crawford had been noted mainly for his spectacular rise from hot-dog-stand owner at Harvard to mile-a-minute president of Cleveland's Thompson Products, Inc. His interest in political economy has been confined to loathing the New Deal...
...prejudice, which is as old as the beginning of the college. First there was Harvardian scorn of the facultyless, unendowed school, but the idea that has stuck longest is the continual refusal of Harvard students to admit that a Radcliffe girl is really feminine. The idea seems mainly to rise from the fact that the girls sometimes wear glasses, often wear saddle shoes, and are usually in earnest. Perhaps Radcliffe has more than its share of seriously interested students; it was founded for the sole purpose of giving women a Harvard education, and for 63 years that purpose has been...
...points before the evening was over, went to work from his pivot post, and with his peculiar under-handed bucket shot, succeeded in either drawing two fouls or dropping a deuce almost every time he was fed. George Dillon's hook shots from the foul line helped the Crimson rise, and a one-handed jump shot by Hugh Hyde with seconds remaining in the first half put them ahead 21 to 19 at intermission time...