Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation has never been properly housed and the problem is particularly acute now because of the rise in births that followed both world wars, and the slump in housing construction that occurred in the early thirties. While the housing shortage may be no one's fault, it is everyone's concern. Its solution requires the modernization of building codes and zoning ordinances, the elimination of whatever sharp practices exist among building unions and contractors, greater use of prefabrication and more standardization of materials and fixtures, and provision for long-term, low interest financing...
...neither drink nor rise...
...rise again and drink once more...
...Portland, Ore., matronly Mrs. Vern C. Edwards, knocked down by a young holdup man, questioned him sympathetically about his motives as she sat on the pavement, rubbing her bruises. Result: the thug courteously helped her to rise, hunted and found her lost earring, kissed her on the cheek and ran off, clutching 50? Mrs. Edwards had given...
Recordings have been the final factor in the band's rise into big business this year. With the issue of the Ivy League Album in mid-winter, the office in the basement of Payne Hall has become a beehive of activity. "Over 3000 albums have been sold," claimed Manager W. Jay Skinner '48, "and we had to turn down a request from Holy Cross to make recordings of their songs at their own expense...