Word: rising
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deck of cards was provided by a member of the audience, the frame was raised above the tabaret on a book supported by small glass pedestals, the frame was set swinging through the air suspended by two cards-none of these successive changes interfered; the named cards continued to rise. The up-and-down motion of the cards obeyed the indication of the outstretched hand of any member of the audience. Cards rose high above the frame, stood motionless in midair, descended into the frame again. As a finale the entire deck swooped out of the globe-covered frame...
...them in a minor tempest which sends one back to her native village, puts the other also in her place, all because of a cool-eyed modern who is neither wife nor smalltown. Crystal Nelson, first assistant to Cooper, the Big Boss, hears that Mr. Greeley's rapid rise in the N. K. U. (National Kitchen Utensils) is due to young Mrs. Greeley's influence with the boss. She traces the gossip to Aurelia, young Mrs. Greeley's confidante. Deftly Miss Nelson demotes Aurelia's husband to an out-of-town office, adroitly she arranges dinner...
...rise of the hand of policeman, stop rapidly. Do not pass or otherwise disrespect...
...superfluous to point out the disastrous results which have attended opportunistic policies of publicity in universities of the past. We have only to look northward to Cambridge to see the most recent example. The sum total of this Fabian policy is always doubt and misapprehension, giving rise to all sorts of misinformation and surmise. Yale owes a debt to her graduates and undergraduates alike in keeping them well informed as to current university procedures...
...temporary addition of nearly a dozen members of the class crew squad to Coach Brown's University squad for three days of rowing has given rise to a large amount of shifting of oarsmen in an attempt to select the best first and second University eights as well as five upperclassmen for the combination crew. Yesterday three revamped crews took a long workout and several additional substitutes were shifted from the coaching launch to the shells during the course of the afternoon...