Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...roof of London's Labor Exchange rose gently up, one evening last week, then slithered down to crash in fragments. Two omnibuses were checked as they lumbered across Oxford Circus, were sportively rolled backward several yards. The glass dome of the Royal College of Music was blown to tinkling smithereens...
...copper industry. One pound of metal, which cost 13 ? "a year ago and 15? a month ago, last week brought producers 16?. On the Manhattan stock exchange, copper stocks went to new post-war highs. Anaconda stood at 89¾, as against a January low of 54. Granby Consolidated rose from 43? 1 to over 78. Kennecott reached 124¼ a new high for all time...
...hope of selling them to the big companies. One night in 1915, he sat in a Manhattan auditorium, listening to the papers read to the American Society of Mining Engineers. One speaker started to explain a new copper reduction process, already in operation in the West. The Desert Rat rose in his seat eyes blazing. He was listening to a description of his own furnace...
Died. Mrs. Rose ("Pinky") Ward Hunt, 77, famed onetime slave; after a brief illness; in Washington, D. C. In 1860 Pastor Henry Ward Beecher bought Pinky for $900. From the pulpit of his Brooklyn church he then sold her to freedom. As Pastor Beecher intended, the sale impressed northerners...
...wonders a little whether Dean McConn of Lehigh is not trying a little too hard to see exclusively out of the rose colored half of his bifocals. In a recent article in the North American Review he vigorously applauds the decision among hosts of undergraduates to devote only a compulsory minimum of time to their studies and lavish the remainder upon outside activities. He makes the plausible statement that the prepondering majority of college students have not the capacity to pursue bookish knowledge. Certainly there is support for this view, but there is also an increasing body of evidence that...