Word: risings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...football team caused some hopes to rise with a win over Lehigh, and then followed that with a triumph over hapless Columbia. The U.S. failed in 7David Riesman came to Harvard as first Ford Professor of Social Sciences. Riesman is now selecting a heterogeneous elite for his course on American character...
...Steel output hit a 15-month high of 2,111,000 tons weekly, was scheduled to rise again last week to an 18-month high. Operating at 74.6% of capacity, the steelmakers were besieged with so many orders that backlogs were mounting...
...gross national product bounded from $329 billion to $414.7 billion, wholesale prices increased only 1½% over the whole period, a remarkable stability indicating that "normal" inflation need not run away with prosperity. And whatever inflation the U.S. has had has been offset for most people by a steady rise in income...
...pace of U.S. business picks up, so does the demand for money. Last week bankers indicated they expect a rise soon in the discount rate, now 2½%, as well as a corresponding hike in the prime rates. Said Hanover Bank's President R. E. McNeill Jr.: "I would not be surprised to see an increase in the discount rate. There is a high level of business, inventories are down, money is fairly tight, and banks are well invested." With higher rates ahead, U.S. bonds had another sinking spell last week, reached the lowest level in years; many Treasury...
...academic societies do not draw the best people because their standards are not as high as those of the scholarly community. But this is a circular argument: if the "brightest" students were able to give more of their time to outside interests, extracurricular standards of performance would obviously rise...