Word: risen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Columbia and Dr. Ferdinand G. Brickwedde of the U. S. Bureau of Standards in Washington. Under low pressure Dr. Brickwedde liquefied hydrogen by reducing the temperature. Then he allowed the temperature to rise.' At 437º below zero F. the liquid began to evaporate. Ordinary hydrogen atoms, being lighter, had risen to the top, evaporated first, leaving the heavier isotope in a richer mixture. At Columbia Professor Urey examined the hydrogen with a spectroscope, found lines only faintly visible in ordinary hydrogen, concluded they were caused by the isotope H². He estimated the proportion of H² to plain...
...their entrance examinations, according to the annual statement issued by the Committee on Admissions. Of the schools represented, Boston Latin is again first with 35 graduates on the list, three more than its representation last year. Exeter, with 21 graduates, retains second place and Andover, with 7, has risen from sixth to third place. Groton, Milton, and St. Paul's are tied for fourth place with three men each...
What the U. S. had been through in October the President described: "Following the abandonment of the gold standard in England a wave of great apprehension spread over the country. Hoarding of currency rose to $200,000,000 a week. . . . Country bank failures had risen. . . . The drain of gold abroad was over $200,000,000 a week...
From Ikhnaton down to Gandhi it has been those who have bucked the crowd for their principles who have risen above the mediocrity of the mass. In recent years the CRIMSON has shown an admirable reluctance to truckle to the established order of things as they are. More than once its staff has brayed the Bourbon majority with stimulating spirit. Minority hats off again to the CRIMSON. R. D. Whittemore 1913 Cragmor, Colorado...
...ambitious, least tea-cuppy of Virginia Woolf's books, like most of her books is startlingly original in method. As a kind of prolog you are treated to a description of dawn over the English coast; this scene comes in again a little later, when the sun has risen-and so on, till night has fallen again. The story proper is written entirely in direct discourse which is really soliloquy, shading sometimes into a kind of ghostly dialog. Except for the inevitable "said Bernard" 's and "said Louis" 's there is not a word in it outside...