Word: risings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...squad has practiced since early March and has been narrowed down from an original 50 candidates. After preseason sessions in Briggs Cage, the team began to take shape after vacation. Since then its performances in practice games have given rise to considerable optimism for the season. The team outscored Cambridge Latin on a rainy and cold Friday one week ago and easily out-played Somerville High School last Tuesday, giving much promise for the future in both games...
...difficulty was that this moral and economic desire to Americanize the world often ran against the wishes of the people concerned and against the principle of self-determination with which the United States had long identified itself. With the post-war rise of anti-colonial nationalism in Asia and Africa, Williams argues, the policy of American economic expansion has proved more and more useless...
Observing that the next highest percentage in the last 15 years was 43 percent, earned by the Classes of '58 and '61, Miss Daveport said the Administration would like to think of this year's rise as "part of an upward trend." Since final grades are usually higher than midyear ones, she predicted that as much as 60 per cent of the 'Cliffe freshmen might make Dean's List by the end of the year...
...presentation that attempts to rise above the one-dimensional "package series" should be attributed a certain amount of esteem even if it falls short of its goal. Mr. Frankenheimer and the splendid cast may have lacked in many respects by your reviewer's Utopian standards, but they brought a rare spark of beauty, truth and creativity to a usually insipid television schedule...
...experts look for another spectacular rise in the next few months. One factor is that the shortage of stock is easing as more and more issues come on sale to sponge up excess funds. The Securities and Exchange Commission reported a record 171 filings in March for issues of $2.2 billion...