Word: risen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...house has risen; it is given Not by one citizen or State; it stands, Given to ns by many hundred hands American and British; nay, each race Upon this earth has helped to build this place. Lovers of Shakespeare everywhere have striven. Every man gave it out of all earth's lands...
...Concerning this dropped Freshmen the percentage has risen because the requirements have been made more difficult. Instead of two D's and two C's, three C's are now necessary to got into the Sophomore Class. The figures give definite indication that the grades are steadily increasing. In 1928 14.1 percent of the entire college were doing unsatisfactory work. Now only 8 percent are falling...
...capital gifts . . . the income of which has not already been allotted." He fails to mention, however, that the money received from the students in the form of tuition and payment for food is still the same amount as received before the depression. The value of the dollar having risen considerably, the students then, are actually paying more now than before the depression; they are helping to offset the deficit in the income from endowments. In other words, if the income from endowments has dropped, that from students has risen...
Sousa's power has consequently been infinite. A nation has risen to his call; the lowliest citizen has felt the irresistable challenge of the measured rhythms. In brightly lighted music halls throughout an urbane world, sophisticated audiences experience a breathless thrill at the rousing strains of a Sousa encore. In the gathering dusk of a weary day, the pledding step of a dogged doughboy is lightened, his heart quickened by the same inspiring tune. As long as music is played, as long as men march, Sousa will be immortalized as the Great March King...
Representative Byrns, chairman of the potent Appropriations Committee, declared that, at Mr. Hoover's suggestion, the Patent Office had been transferred from the Interior Department to the Commerce Department and its annual cost had thereafter risen from $3,708,000 to $5,236,750. He also emphasized the President's own addiction to new commissions and special boards and suggested he could make a better start toward reorganization economy by abolishing some of them...