Word: risen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cabinet position assumed somewhat of an honorary nature with its last Republican incumbent, it has always been a vital cog in the administration, especially today with war a good deal closer around the corner than prosperity. It has also been one of the few secretaryships about which there have risen no wraiths of corruption. Let us examine genial Mr. Curley's qualifications...
...This would have boosted silver not to $1.29 an ounce, the old 16 to 1 price but, because the price of gold has risen, to around $2.50 an ounce -higher than silver has been in a century...
...hards who fear a sudden fall in attendance at lectures if authentic notes were made available, it need only be pointed out that the same objection was raised against the dropping of compulsory attendance at lectures. Yet the academic standards of the College have risen notably since liberal cutting has been allowed. The lecturer who cannot compete with his own lecture notes had best stop wasting the students' time...
...been a matter of some years since a Princeton football team has risen to such heights as the present one. And the Tiger's newfound athletic glory is made not less sweet by his sudden leap from the slough of 1930 and 1931. Princeton has a great team, and Princeton men are fully aware of it. A transcontinental trip is not required to prove it. --Daily Princetonian...
...distribution of favors to other sections of the community. The first move is being made by raising the prices of farm products and thus subsidizing the land-holding peasantry, active backbone, if prosperous, of any regime aimed at safeguarding private property. Dairy products are an indication; butter has risen in price by about one third, cheese by 30 per cent, cream by 25 per cent. Moral: stop the proletariat with the peasantry...