Word: risings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...project, a $65,000 undertaking which is being constructed near the Harvard Observatory in the Blue Hills, will have a 2,100 foot trail with a rise of 400 feet for experienced skiers and a slightly slower run of 2,700 feet with the same rise...
...rice and sweet potato fields of Okinawa creep over the slate volcanic soil, covering the shell holes and the bloodstained caves where two great armies fought for eleven weeks. Weeds cover the charred foundations of what once were neat stone houses. Near by rise clusters of lean-tos made of cloth, battered boards and castoff American corrugated iron...
...report, a day-to-day record of the recent experience of the firm, is a detailed history of its dealings with its employees throughout the years of the depression, the National Recovery Act, the rise of individual unions in the United States, and World...
...World War II he commanded the armies that relieved Stalingrad, crossing the Don to close a ring around the Nazis' besieging divisions. In mid-1944 he headed the Soviet forces which ignominiously sat outside his "native" Warsaw while Polish patriots inside, having been signaled by the Russians to rise, were slaughtered by the Nazis...
Narrowed Gap. More important, U.S. department-store sales, which had lagged woefully behind 1948, were also on the rise. For the first week in November, although still 2% under 1948 for the U.S. as a whole, they were from 1% to 15% above last year in eleven major U.S. cities...