Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drop in honor marks is evident this year, in spite of an increase over 1939's satisfactory marks of A, B, or C. This is accounted for by a rise in the number of C's from 41.9 per cent to 44.3 per cent. D's and E's fell off .5 per cent from last year...
...National Industrial Conference Board announced that in January its 300-odd reporting manufacturers had suffered a 3% inventory rise (over December) in spite of curtailed production. This was the fifth consecutive month of inventory rises. N.I.C.B.'s reporting companies are among the nimblest of U. S. corporations and U. S. business as a whole may well be having worse inventory worries...
...important reason: demand for fuel oil, normally a by-product of gasoline, continued to rise. Now gasoline has become virtually a by-product of fuel oil because refiners are compelled to make more & more unwanted gasoline in order to fill their fuel oil orders. To help move surplus gasoline, Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., Inc. cut Mobilgas from...
These percentages represent a distinct increase in the social sciences and a definite rise in the natural sciences, with the humanities remaining the same. Last year the social sciences had 43.1%, the natural sciences 32.7%, and the humanities...
History has been the third most popular field practically every year, but it has never attained the top position. The decline of English and the rise of Government are probably the most remarkable changes; the natural sciences have gained steadily but not spectacularly...