Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Their rise to fame started on April 18 with an 86 to 76 victory over a vaunted Yale team. At that time the sailors were the second Crimson sport to turn in a win over...
...rise in Radcliffe fertility is also recorded. Ninety-one percent of the Class of 1938 marriages have proved fertile, according to Population Bureau statistics, while the corresponding figure for the Class of 1923 is but 78 percent...
...chief defect of the examination system is its tendency to make a student's efforts rise to dominant peaks just before examinations. It might be said that an examination makes the student think about a course as a whole, but stimulates him to such thinking only once or twice a year...
...chartists had a rough clue in past performance. After previous bull-market "confirmations" (breakthroughs), the Dow-Jones industrials had a total rise from 30 points...
...Rise. Despite stratospheric prices, more & more people were building houses. In April 90,000 non-farm dwelling units were begun in the U.S., 34% above last April...