Word: risings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crimson in Triumph Flashing" was caught on the needle and spinning aimlessly. The football team had that changed too or was it the same the same the same the record was still caught. Vag paced the room, listening to the familiar music rise and fall, over and over, like past years' Yale game hopes. Again he wondered, had the team changed or was it the same same same he jumped up and turned off the turntable. As soon as "Crimson in Triumph" had stopped spinning, he picked it up, centered it on a nail over the mantel, and pushed...
...three months ended July 31, the rise in dividends was 8%-from $1,287,100,000 a year ago to $1,392,700,000. Manufacturing led the list with gains of 8% to 20% in everything except food processing, which was up only 3%. Wholesale and retail trade dividends were up 5%, while heat, light, and power dividends fell...
Last spring, Provost Buck, in announcing a rise in tuition, said that College enrollment would dip to 5100 this fall and 4700 in the spring term. With Selective Service in the offing, a large Class of 1952 was admitted. But when immediate drafting did not occur, the College was faced with a freshman class--and a total enrollment-far larger than estimated...
Vice-President Edward Reynolds '15 attributed the new rates to a substantial rise in the cost of food," and warned that the new level is by no means final. "There appears to be very little prospect of a noticeable decline in the near future," he said...
Reynolds listed two principal reasons for the rise: the constant increase in food costs--especially meat and dairy products--and a higher wage scale for employees than previously...