Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard's phenomenal rise was "by virtue of its mighty performance in holding Navy, fifth ranking team, to a scoreless deadlock last Saturday...
...first gun in the Bruening epoch of "government by presidential decree," which weakened parliamentary democracy and hastened the rise of Hitlerism. When the Reichstag rebuked him for these Notverordnungen, Bruening asked von Hindenburg to dissolve the parliament and call an election...
...Trade Board was set up. Considering the fact that Canada has been actually at war for two years, the Board has done a reasonably able job of keeping down prices of necessities, particularly rents. The work of the Board and a Government order providing wage increases as living costs rise have served as a temporary dam against inflation...
...stationery store quoted a 33 percent rise in wholesale notebook prices, and its owner worriedly predicted a further increase. Priority restrictions were damned by several men, who complained bitterly that they were having trouble getting metal goods. Chlorine, used in paper bleaching, is not now easily available for that purpose and future paper may have a slightly greyish appearance...
Like its immediate predecessor, Happy Days (about his boisterous Baltimore childhood), this is a book of reminiscences -a rollicking account of Henry Mencken's start and rapid rise in journalism from 1899 to 1906. Interspersed are hilarious portraits of tavernkeepers, politicians, cops and other period fauna...