Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Weather Bureau Forecaster C. A. Douniel at Chicago said temperatures would be more moderate stating Friday and that he Sunday there should be a general rise of 10 to 15 degrees...
Sirs: ... Of Rear Admiral Nicholson you state, "he was one of two naval men in history to rise from the ranks to wear an admiral's four stars." Rear Admiral Nehemiah Mayo Dyer-Captain of the Baltimore during the Spanish-American War, also rose from the ranks to that of rear admiral...
...Wildwood, N. J. home while her husband Henry, 84, took care of her. Last week Henry, ill himself, lay down beside her, died. Desperately, Mary Kincaid tried to raise her husky voice in a cry for help, lay there helpless for two days, finally summoned strength enough to rise, totter to the window, beckon in a passerby...
Because its red sandstone ramparts rise 200 ft. above the tide line, in contrast to the sandy flatness of all other islands off Germany's northeast coast, the roost of Lieut. Colonel Schumacher and his merry men was called Hillige ("Holy") Land by the ancient Frisians. Britain took it from Denmark and later traded it to Germany in exchange for Zanzibar. In 1914-18 Helgoland, as an advanced fleet base, fortified and protected by mine fields, gave Britain so much trouble that she afterwards insisted upon dismantling it. Her engineers spent three years blowing up its forts and moles...
...called to order, as custom provides, by its most aged member, M. Georges Lévy-Alphandéry, 78. While the Deputies listened to his quavering and cackling the seven Reds took their seats unobtrusively. When old Lévy-Alphandéry asked the Chamber to rise "in homage to the armed forces of France," three rose but four kept their seats. "Throw them out!" shouted the Deputies...