Word: rising
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...preparation is to acquire the greatest cultural tradition possible. The day of bright, gifted auto-didacts is over. The profound assimilation of a little experience is now more valuable than hurried acquaintance with a great many sharp unrelated facts. The literature of super reporting from time to time can rise to a virtuosity that gives it all the effect of creative lyricism. But it takes a real genius such as Balzae to accomplish this, and more often a writer falls into sterile description...
Blue butter, a'stutter, a'flutter, no mutter, no matter, no clatter, that picture, that stricture gives rise, not wisely but unwisely, to the crack, to the smack, fee-fi-io-flack, It's a nose, it's a Nose, it's a NOSE...
...chief handicap is Mexico City's altitude, a mile above sea level, where the thin atmosphere makes it difficult for a plane to rise with enough gasoline for the distance. In 1927, Col. Lindbergh flew in the reverse direction, from Washington to Mexico City, arriving with light tanks...
...reply to Mr. Warburg. Neither did it increase its rediscount rate. During the entire Federal Reserve-Wall Street controversy there has been a strong undercurrent of rumor concerning dissension among Reserve Board Members. It has been claimed that Andrew Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury, has been opposed to any rise in the rediscount rate, that his influence has kept the Board from taking drastic measures. Neither personal nor political reasons are lacking to make such an attitude logical for Mr. Mellon. Not only is the Bull Market an evidence of Republican Prosperity, but rising rediscount rates would make more difficult...
...University players are undaunted by the have recently wrought in their ranks. Captain John Tudor '29, playing in his last intercollegiate game, and F. R. G. Giddens '30, Canadian ace, have both proven that they can rise to great heights under adverse conditions. Two of the highest scorers on the Harvard squad, they will be counted on once again to lead a fierce attack against their favored rivals...