Word: rising
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Best general references: Party Platform, World's Almanac for 1893, p. 83; Sub-Treasury Warehouse Scheme, World's Almanac, 1891, p. 94; C. W. Wiley in Amer. Jl. Politics, 5:651 (Dec., 1894); F. B. Tracy in Forum 16:244 (Oct., 1893); Rise and Doom of the Populist Party; F. M. Drew in Pol. Sci. Quar. 6; 282 (June, 1891); The Present Farmers' Movement, J. F. Vaile in Forum 18: 714 (Feb., 1895); Colorado's Experiment with Populism; Public Opinion...
After describing the nature of the Arabic language and its system, Dr. Torrey went on to give an account of the rise of its poetry. Among the peculiarities of Arabic poetry is a law which requires writers to begin all kinds of poems with praise of his sweetheart. Arabian histories are very tiresome, for every writer begins his history with the beginning of the world. The language is rich in fiction and the "Thousand and One Nights" is the greatest story book in the world...
...first term of this, his senior year, and although he was not one of the speakers in the Princeton debate last fall, to him in great part the success of this team was due. To him also more than probably any one else belongs the credit for the rise in debating at Yale. When he entered College, it was considered almost a "queer" to belong to one of the Unions, while now their membership rolls contain the names of many of the prominent undergraduates of all classes...
...years, and we hope that this does not signify a falling off in interest among its members. The club in the past has held a high reputation for excellence in the quality of its work, and there has been a distinct growth each year in interest, with a corresponding rise in the standard. Each exhibition has been better than the one of the year before, and the present one should prove no exception to the rule...
...finances are in a bad state. The fundamental difficulty is that there is too much money in the United States, more than there would be of specie, if there were no paper substitutes. The familiar reasoning of economists is that, when there is a redundancy of the currency, prices rise, imports come in and gold flows out. The outflow of specie in 1893 and 1895 is generally looked on as a proof of the superabundance of currency. But this is not at all certain and economists have much to learn about such occurrences. One of the other evidence...