Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME considered Abdullah the key figure to the unlocking of the British mandate. The rise of the state of Israel is another story, now beginning to unfold...
...drums rolling for him at Philadelphia. But to Republicans, the New York Herald Tribune pointed the poll's warning: "What is proved is that an overwhelming majority of ... voters are united in wanting the ablest leadership they can conceive . . . This Republican newspaper asks only that the Philadelphia convention rise to its opportunity and name .the strongest candidate who is available." The key word was the word "available...
...some respects, the Dow-Jones averages-which record the rise & fall of 65 (out of 1,398) stocks on the Big Board-did not show the true strength of the baby bull market. Day after day last week, scores of stocks hit new highs for 1947-48 and stayed there. The booming oils had even passed their 1929 peak...
Also: Detlev F. Vagt '49, the Philip Washburn Prize for an essay entitled "The Trial of the Hebertists and the Rise of Revolutionary Nationalism"; Charles M. Gray '49, the History and Literature Prize; and Ernest J. Meyer '50, the Barrett Wendell Prize...
...chief plot of "Les Eufants" concerns the nebulous love affair of an unwordly mime, Baptiste, and a tarnished but not unattractive young lady named Garance. Around this powerfully developed theme lie constellations of characters and stories: the rise of Frederick, the Actor of the Age; the life and death of Garance's titled paramour; and glimpses into the lives of actors and criminals and others too numerous to describe...