Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...depends on many factors. Next year, enrollment will commence the long shrink back to normal and the full-scale summer term will be discontinued. A great drop in student income will result, both in tuition and in room and board. If this decrease should be accompanied by a continued rise in prices, the College will have to move swiftly to meet expenses...
Hockey practice has already begun, but enthusiasts must rise before sunrise as practice is hold from 7:30 to 8:30 o'clock in the morning at the Boston Skating Club. First game is on December...
...Clann. When the phoenix of the ancients had lived upwards of 500 years, it retired to await death in the high branches of an oak or palm tree. From there a young phoenix would rise to carry the spent body of his parent to the altar of the sun. By last week Maud Gonne MacBride was 81, bedridden in a rambling old-world mansion outside of Dublin. The De Valera government, for which and against which she had fought so bitterly, had grown complacent and tired. For years Dev's party, the Fianna Fail, had known no effective opposition...
Bigger & Bigger. The gross national product in the third quarter of this year rose to a record annual rate of $232 billion up $10 billion since the first quarter. Much of the rise was due to higher prices. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that retail food prices jumped 3.6% during the month ending Sept. 15, reaching a new record high (203.5% of the 1935-39 average) for the fourth consecutive month...
...documents what was plain even to armchair admirals at the start of the war: that neither Britain nor the U.S. was ready for the U-boats. Readers will feel their hackles rise as Morison shows how close Nazi Admiral Doenitz came to wiping out the supply line from the U.S. to Britain. In the first 6½ months after Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Navy sank just eight subs (the Germans were building that many every ten days); the subs sank 360 merchant ships...