Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...face of a possible tuition rise, the Council Finance Committee last night released a report examining the desirability of hiring an accountant to audit the University's books to see if such a rise were justified...
Some of the polo players even brought their own mounts with them and stabled them amongst the R.O.T.C. ponies. But that was before the war, and the rise of income tax, the mechanized army and the common...
...month to each of the nation's 18,800,000 veterans at the age of 65, whether they needed it or not, and a minimum of $42 a month for veterans' widows. The cost for the first year would run to about $62 million, would rise to $6 billion within a decade, and eventually reach an astronomical total of $200 billion, four times as much as the U.S. has paid out from the Revolution to the present...
Alan Barth of the Washington Post told the group that the rise of national columnists has been due to the failure of editorial pages to deal vigorously with social problems...
...years that have passed since then, the glitter of royalty has disappeared from most of the world, France's empire has almost been forgotten, kings have given way to commoners, and the Suez Canal itself, under British control, has flowed on through the rise & fall of many another empire. Through all those years Eugénie's La Reine has stretched and slept under the hot Egyptian...