Word: risen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that is best for the peace of the world and for harmony in international relationships. "In view of what has taken place it would be idle for us to pretend to each other that the position of M. Briand remains exactly the same as it was. ... I have risen for the purpose of expressing what I believe to be the unanimous desire of this gathering-as it would be the unanimous desire of a larger gathering like the Assembly [of the League of Nations] if that were gathered together-to say that M. Briand retains to the very full...
...article in the Alumni Bulletin Mr. Hindmarsh shows how the cost of going to college has risen in the last thirty years and how the amount of money given out In scholarships and other aids has also gone up. He makes no mention of the fact that extra money has been received this year to take care of scholarship men in the houses. There are approximately 220 upperclassmen who will live in the House Plan who are scholarship holders. An extra sum of money which will take care of the average increase in room rent has been received and this...
Last week the Treasury announced that its deficit had risen to the unprecedented peacetime figure of $878,971,129, indicated that it would break through the billion dollar mark before the end of the fiscal year (June 30). President Hoover was thoroughly alarmed...
There is hardly any reason for continuing attempts to gain the inclusion of the three Germans in the principal memorial. The Corporation and the president have acted, and it is hardly possible that they will retreat. But retreat is impossible for those whose minds have risen above mere donations and pledges; for those who see the absurdity of two distinct memorials to one group...
...lives for a cause, one that our country believed to be just, and fought for in that faith. Obviously a memorial to men who died for a cause is meaningless for that purpose if it includes those who died for a different or contrary cause. The same question has risen about Memorial Hall, dedicated to Harvard men who died for the Union. Confederate soldiers were no less heroic and conselentious but they fought for a different cause...