Word: arisen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Considered from the viewpoint of the individual, another problem has arisen. As the numbers have increased, it has become proportionately more difficult for the underclassman to achieve that distinction which the Yale social system seems to demand. In order to make friends and become a worthy member of society, the feeling is that one must have "made" some team or competition. As a result, the ambitious tend to dissipate their energies in activities of little lasting value in order to acquire temporary recognition. Outside the circle of "big men" are those of quiet worth who have time for the pursuit...
...justice. Historians inevitably arrive at this conclusion after weighing every element in the balance, and after attaining a universal perspective of the situation. However, a careful investigation of the trend of history is hardly necessary, for during the past week, a significant illustration of the force of power has arisen. Premier Mussolini, in attacking the "intolerable interference" of Austria in the Upper Adige, or Italian Tyrol, is voicing the assurance of a nation which feels capable of enforcing its own policy and protecting its own boundaries and at the same time is on the point of sacrificing the principles...
...Possum Poke on 'Possum Lane." Had any Michigan newspaper desired to reclaim "one of the most prolific writers in this country" as a Michigander, it would only have had to point to Dr. Osborn's permanent home at Sault Ste. Marie. But then, had argument arisen, still a third state could have stepped in and carried off the prize. Michigan's Governor, Georgia's citizen, who started out in the world as a cub reporter, was born, like so many other famed writers, in the once-great but latterly self-belittled state of Indiana. Dr. Osborn...
...development of means to train the very young mind without menace to its health and happiness. In other words the problem is one which we have to work out for ourselves. We cannot borrow the method from Europe, where the conditions peculiar to our life have not arisen. Boston Transcript...
Fortunately, these relics of an attitude that divorced worldly amusements from any contact with religion or religious men are now in the class of museum pieces. In the minds of modern men the jarring elements in religion and daily amusement have become reconciled into harmony. There has arisen a recognition of how each may supplement the other...