Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Embassy a little-enough to let citizens see, within its secrecy-shrouded interior, that he had conferred long with Premier-Foreign Commissar Molotov just as peace moves got under way in earnest, that he had held an unpublicized reception for the Finnish negotiators when they arrived-all giving rise to a report that the negotiations had been held on the conveniently neutral ground of the U. S. Embassy...
Interviewed in London by reporters and Columbia Broadcasting System last week. Spencer Williams said: "A general rise of 35% in all food prices was decreed about the middle of January. That's a story no newspaper correspondent was allowed to send. Naturally every citizen in Moscow knew of this except the censors, who professed to be in such ignorance that they could not pass this news on the ground that they had never heard...
Yellowish carbon disulfide, with its radish-like stink, is a man-made chemical used to dissolve fats. In the rayon industry it is poured into huge churns to dissolve cotton or wood pulp before the cellulose solution is spun into threads. From the churns rise foul C52 fumes...
Among the facts in Calvin Coolidge will be found the best pro-Coolidge account of the Boston Police Strike of 1919, which rocketed Governor Coolidge to national fame. Biographer Fuess traces the most detailed account of Coolidge's pre-Presidential career, his rise from clerk in the Northampton, Mass, law office of Judge Field ("an inscrutable little devil," said the Judge) to his nomination as Vice President in 1920. (Fuess contends that Coolidge would have got the Presidential nomination except for Senator Lodge's sabotage. Said the aristocratic Senator: "Nominate a man who lives in a two-family...
...Flash" floods do not rise and spread steadily-they explode, like dynamite...