Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with Industry. The most spectacular rises in population have come with industrialization. The "laws" which govern it are not yet well understood, but the early stages of industrialization, in any country, seem to be associated with a moderate rise in the birth rate, a sharp fall in the death rate and a consequent jump in population...
Speaking on the "cultural Significance of Science" Professor Kemble opened the debate. He listed a variety of negative scientific influences, such as the rise in population and bad features of urban living, but asserted that "logical, unprejudiced features of sciences" can overcome most of these problems...
...Nathan Hirschberg, a Manhattan attorney, testified in his wife's suit for separation that he used to leave tender notes on her pillow before leaving for work. Sample: "Cherub: Rise and shine. 'Tis a lovely day for a lovely cherub." If he failed to leave a note, said Hirschberg, his wife would cut loose later with "swear words and oaths that would make a seasoned muleskinner envious." Said Cherub: "I remember calling him, nothing worse than a penny-pinching jerk...
...School of Economics for an exhaustive five-year study of the middle-class problem. Captained by Caradog Jones, M.A., a retired middle-class professor whose last big job was a survey of the depressed Merseyside area (around Liverpool), the researchers will study not only present problems but "how people rise and fall in this [Britain's] complicated caste-system...
Wall Streeters, who had had a dozen reasons for the market's slump during the summer, now had another dozen reasons for the rise. There was "a better tenor to foreign cables," it was only "the preelection rally," etc., etc. But there was also reason to believe that investors, who had mistrusted the solidity of the boom, were having their minds changed by fresh evidence...