Word: arisen
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What is the solution? Similar conditions have arisen before in the legal profession and have been solved. The solution has been a new codification of laws. Two great emperors had new codes drawn- Justinian and Napoleon. We have no emperor to do us that service, so the members of the legal profession are taking it upon themselves. They cannot by a stroke of the pen create a uniform code of laws for this country, but they hope, without legislation, to draw up a sort of handbook of legal procedure, to which all lawyers and judges may turn as authority...
Fillbustering, favorite indoor sport of the Senate, is again in vogue. New champions have arisen, whose feats may equal those of the old masters. The requisites for this delightful game are few,-one needs merely a strong constitution and as little real information as possible. Clearly, it is a sport in which practically every Senator can compete...
...have spent the summer helping in this work have found opportunities for cruising and exploration combined with the labor required. Few have gone, but as the proportions of the undertaking have grown, there has arisen a need for more men--especially those with medical or mechanical knowledge...
...ever been possible before or since. Even in the days of the American Revolution, when the Marquis de Lafayette came here to help in our fight for independence, there was no popular or personal friendship such as existed four years ago. But since the armistice an intangible barrier has arisen between the peoples. The French orphan is in danger of forgetting the help which he received from his "foster-mother" across the sea; and the American may look with distrust upon the French so-called "militaristic" attitude, and forget what France has had to suffer from German invasion. National prejudice...
When our country reaches the state of the milk bottle it will be confronted by a serious problem; but this same situation has already arisen in Asia Minor; and Lord Curzon, on behalf of England--and, supposedly, the rest of Europe,-- has advised that the millions Greeks, Armenians and the other Christian minorities in the country beyond the Aegean, be transported from the path of the Turk. He fears that, if they should remain, massacres on a more terrible scale might occur, and that it is better to leave Kemal and Ishmet and their followers room for expansion...