Word: rising
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Wilfred Ward, editor of the Dublin Review, delivered a lecture in Emerson D yesterday afternoon on "The Character of Disraeli," Disraeli, in his rise from the masses to the foremost place in England, in the power and respect he commanded while prime minister, was very like Napoleon. In spite of his frigid reception in Parliament, and the early discouragements of his career, he remained undaunted...
Disraeli himself says that he entered politics from the love of popular favor, and from ambition to rise from the masses. He wanted distinction, power, and wanted it while he was alive. Did he, then, put political sincerity and integrity aside in his thirst for fame? That he wavered in his choice of parties, that he completely reversed his platform, aroused suspicions on this score. Yet he was less inconsistent than Peel and Gladstone; he was in constant sympathy with the people, as is shown by the tenor of the laws which he urged, and he invariably appears...
...reaction from all this starts with the strained efforts to keep up with increased business and the consequent rise of the average cost of production. Interest rates soar and the efficiency of business management falls off on the top of the boom because the offices are too busy to pay attention to details and small wastes. Then there is an increase in long time borrowing, closely followed by a rise of interest and a complaint of tight capital. This in turn leads to a reluctance to make further investments and an increase of demands for short time loans. The last...
...feet below the surface of the ground and the slope from this to the ground level is cut into broad low steps which are protected by a granolithic covering like a sidewalk or curb. Upon these are placed wooden benches with backs and foot-rests, while above these rise the tiers of seats in the "Bowl" proper. There are to be thirty-two entrance tunnels besides the large one on the west side for the use of the athletes, and the main entrance. It will be constructed, as is the Stadium, of re-enforced concrete...
...most in Mr. Corbin's failure to include in his article a large enough portion of optimism over what we now have in the line of democracy. To our way of thinking, there is something encouraging, indeed, inspiring, in the sight of the dozens of men who each year rise from the College ranks; and, while we grant that much more can be done to raise College Democracy even farther above world democracy than it now is, we insist that it should not be judged, with slighting attention to the existing hopeful situation, by the standards of twenty-odd years...