Word: risen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Soon the boy graduated to the ranks of the hat salesmen, and several years later was still selling Knox hats, his salary now having risen to $12 weekly. Ambitious, he asked for $15. But Hatter Knox refused the raise. Angry, Robert left, started his own hat business. Thus began the famed Dunlap hat company, founded by Robert Dunlap, onetime Knox errand...
...administration, by Democrats as a sign of bad stewardship. By October, President Coolidge foresaw an even break between receipts and expenditures. By December, when President Coolidge sent his budget to Congress, he had discovered a timorous little surplus of 37 millions peeping up at him. By March it had risen to 50 millions. Last week Mr. McCoy, anonymously, of course, revised his figures and forecast a surplus of 100 millions on June...
...Oxford is not entirely the fault of the Rhodes Scholars since at the time of their creation, few other Americans went there and 96 (the maximum number) was not an excessive proportion. Now that so many go on their own, I believe that the total of Americans has risen to about two hundred but even that is less than a twentieth of the total enrollment and I imagine that one could find several national groups (though perhaps of American origin) at Harvard in higher proportions than this. With regard to the displacement of the English by American competition...
...Tycoons marshaled by their dean, Baron Ebbisham, President of the Federation of British Industries. The guests were met?or thought they were?merely to toss off a few champagne toasts to the British Industries Fair, which would open next day in London. But no sooner had Edward of Wales risen and begun to speak, than the Tycoons realized with an unpleasant shock that they were in for one of the most thoroughgoing rebukes ever administered to rich old men by a young heir apparent...
...nothing of its own quite like Chevalier. He effervesces songs and, with fleeting pantomime, gives them the quality of fine etchings slightly caricatured. Having risen from the streets of Paris he has the wistfulness of their shadows. The Paris music-halls have given him a touch of rowdiness. The War, in which he was wounded and captured, left him with unbridled spontaneity...