Word: rising
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Rise from the shore, encompass all the view...
From every little pond, and rise...
...rise above and kiss the brim...
...which he tills. Through all this great activity he ever kept in view the one object to which his efforts were directed: it was his earnest wish to gather specimens for a natural history of his adopted country, and to present them in classified form; this desire ultimately gave rise to the Museum of Comparative Zoology...
...twenty-one universities were united in one central institution, where, as upon a common trunk, the different branches of the system took their rise. This is called the University of France...