Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Return of a Reputation. Last week 28 of Walter Greaves's paintings were on exhibition in a London gallery, an indication that his reputation was on the rise again-as a painter in his own right. His pleasingly melancholy river scenes lacked the sophistication of Whistler's art, but had a simple boatman's directness and integrity. "To Mr. Whistler," dogged Walter once said, "a boat was always a tone; to me it was always a boat...
...mere rattling of seats, which generally heralds the rise of a summer theater curtain, will inaugurate the dimming of the house lights at Wellesley's Alumnae Hall tonight. Elaborate brassladen ceremonies have been scheduled, which climax in a squadron of airplanes zooming overhead in letter "W" formation...
...danger was that price rises would not stop there. A spokesman for Ben Fairless' U.S. Steel, the bellwether of all U.S. industry, argued that the higher costs could be absorbed between mine and consumer, that assured production was more important now than a slight price rise, that anything was better than another coal strike. The argument had a slightly brassy ring...
Francis also declared that any rent rise in the future would not necessarily be the full 15 percent permitted under the new federal law. He said that the Trust was not a commercial enterprise, and that rents would be kept as reasonable as possible...
Tass echoed his speech: "The Soviet people is successfully carrying out its postwar Stalin Five year Plan. This insures a steady rise of the material and cultural well-being of the Soviet people. . . .* Other European countries are now engaged in [similar] plans. . . . The Soviet Union . . . more than once offered resistance to attempts at foreign intervention...