Word: rising
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jail isn't like it used to be. . . . As for Sinclair, he'll be just one of the boys here.We'll put him to work and hope he likes it. . . ." Convict Sinclair will share "his 8-by-6 cell with another prisoner. He will rise at 5:30 A. M.; retire at 9 P. M. For amusement he may read books, listen to the radio. It will be hot in this jail during the summer. If all goes well for him, Sinclair will be free...
Where now stands Center Market will rise a building for the Department of Justice ($3,400,000). housing 700 workers. Today this department functions in a rented building at K Street and Vermont Avenue...
Supreme Court has sat in a room in the Capitol less impressive than many a county court room. Cramped in between House and Senate, the Justices lack adequate offices, take their cases home to work on. A new Supreme Court Building (ten millions) of classic lines will soon rise opposite the Capitol, north of the Library of Congress. To make room for this new structure the "Old Capitol"?in which Congress sat after the 1814 fire, in which Civil War prisoners were housed, in which the National Woman's Party now has its headquarters?must first be razed...
...Singleton, England, the school bell rang for recess. The fat boy, aged six, was jammed in his desk, could not rise. When the village carpenter had sawed the desk off him, recess was almost gone...
Observers of the swift-winged Hutchins rise, wondered who was behind this last, most notable flight. Undoubtedly President Angell fostered it. But who in Chicago? Because he is determinedly the University's "mystery man," it could not be told definitely how much Harold Higgins Swift, potent packer, had done or said. Many are the donations of money and ideas that come from the office in Chicago's stockyards where Mr. Swift functions as vice president of Swift & Co. and a director of Libby, McNeill & Libby. But he keeps most of his enthusiasm and efforts for the University anonymous...