Word: rising
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...thyself" is not a ruling maxim in the kingdom of exchange. Men say, indeed, that self-interest is king in this domain of business and the Christian law does not apply to the factory and the counting-room. Business is business. This common sentiment of the street takes its rise from Adam Smith and his school, whose false a priori assumption that self-interest is supreme over benevolence dominated economic theories for 100 years and whose bitter fruits we are still reaping, since such doctrine finds congenial soil in the natural heart. Smith and his contemporaries were optimists...
...conditions of the match were 20 clay birds to a man, 5 angles, 18 yards rise. By an accident two members of the Dedham team were unable to be present; so the remaining four shot two extra rounds, in order that the total number of birds shot at by each team might be the same...
...Chief results of these discoveries as regards the reconstruction of the history of the East before the Persian rule. Sketch of the gradual expansion of early Babylonian civilization, of the various states of Northern and Southern Babylonia, and of the rise of Assyria...
...pigeons straightaway, 21 yards rise...
...clay pigeons, 5 angles, 15 yards rise...