Word: arisen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Carpentier should come under suspicion of "playing up" his injury to win applause and sympathy. For nine rounds, the handsome, blond ring-idol of Europe had assaulted a dangerous foe, taken hard battering. In the tenth round, he had grovelled horribly on the floor, all but unconscious, then had arisen and torn into Tunney with dizzy, desperate courage, thunderously cheered by the crowd. Stretched limp in his dressing room afterwards, Carpentier assured questioners that he had been struck foully. Descamps echoed his charge, only adding that he felt sure the thrust had been accidental. Asked if he would now retire...
Back again in London, Premier MacDonal'd unfolded his sad tale to the House of Commons: "An unfortunate situation having arisen in Paris which threatened to destroy the work done to arrange for the interallied conference on application of the Experts' Reports, I went to Paris to try to remove...
...peculiar state of affairs had arisen on account of the recent controversy over the soldier bonus. In October, 1923, Mr. Mellon issued less favorable figures; the Democrats accused the Treasury of "juggling figures" in order to forestall the bonus. Hence, when Mr. Mellon issued last week the glad news of the greatest surplus of history, he issued it with an apology...
That parents should have the right of choice between public and private schools for their children so long as the institutions meet the approval of state authorities. (This was held significant in view of controversies that have arisen over school laws in Oregon and other States...
...because of the inadequacy of the facilities. At Vassar, 298 Freshmen were admitted out of 539 candidates; at Wellesley 424 out of 1,337; at Mount Holyoke, 338 out of 680; at Smith, 600 out of 1,835. Selection having become necessary, the problem of whom to select has arisen. Admission on the basis of an aristocracy of brains is considered unsatisfactory...