Word: rising
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...sale of oleomargarine gives rise to fraud and imitation: Daily Papers, Waterbury v. Newton...
...well-earned victory, but when liberty becomes license, when victory means subsequent behavior that brings shame and disgrace upon the name of Fair Harvard, then victory is a thousand times worse than honorable defeat, and it is time for every one of her sons, old and young, to rise and protest...
...would be difficult, Professor Carpenter said, to give in one lecture a complete account of the rise of ideas among the Hebrews from the animistic level of the earliest period to the lofty conceptions which marked their highest development. This growth was stimulated from various sources, chiefly Persian and Greek. It was controlled by certain passionate religious convictions which were transformed under deep national and personal experiences...
...prophecy. It had a very beneficial effect on religion, for it separated the people from the accustomed ritual, and increased their spirituality. Thus new influences came to bear upon the Jews at a time when they were best prepared to receive them. Here the conception of Yahweh began to rise. In Ezekiel the rescue of Israel from her troubles is portrayed by the well-known and splendid figure of the resurrection of the bones. This figure was never fully realized. The time of the return from captivity was one of sadness, and it was only when the vicissitudes of life...
With the period of Greek influence came the rise of Apocalyptic literature. It brought an element of the idea of eternity but did not work it out in a system of philosophy. The body was considered the seat of personality and hence it was thought that there could be no reward or penalty without the ultimate union of soul and body...