Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Infant Mortality. "In spite of the rapid rise in births," says Dr. Conti, "infant mortality in Germany has declined considerably. With [a mortality rate of 6%] . . . Germany takes its place among the ranks of the more fortunate nations...
...infant death rate for 1937, says Dr. Gumpert, represents a rise of 1.5% over the previous year in the cities. Manhattan lost 4.5% of its babies; Holland lost 3.8%. And Mother Conti should have a hard job explaining to her son why cases of puerperal (childbed) fever jumped from...
...need for some outside disturbance gave rise to the "encounter theory"-that the planets were born when another star happened to pass close by the sun. The disturbance caused the sun to throw off jets of matter, "planetesimals," which later collected in large masses to make the planets. Sir James Jeans pictured the passing star as raising a huge tide on the sun, eventually pulling out a long filament of sun-stuff which broke up into major pieces. British Harold Jeffreys favored an actual collision of sun and star, the two bodies drawing out a ribbon of their commingled substance...
...Newsmen, with an analysis of the treasurer's report and anything else that might interest Colonel Knox's boys. Last week, 1939's annual edition came off the press. Editor John Mirt told of increased earnings ($767,266 in 1939), bigger circulation (438,951), a rise in advertising linage (up 4½% while Chicago papers as a whole were losing over...
Attack 2 : France was guilty of cruelty to Germany at Versailles, hence is responsible for Hitler's rise...