Word: rising
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...come out, unskilled as photographers, to increase their interests and broaden their friendships; and, if successful, they emerge feeling they have at last found their place in their college world. The fruits of their accomplishments they taste for the next three years, for if they so desire, they may rise as editors to positions of executive importance on the CRIMSON and of prominence in their class. Their interest does not flag at the end of their novitiate period, but the novelty and variety of CRIMSON work stimulates them further...
...Superintendent McBride is not the power that was Superintendent Wheeler. The League is essentially a religious organization. Mr. McBride is a minister who, after education at Muskingum College, had several obscure pastorates before beginning his unsensational rise in the League's service. There are other anti-salooning ministers more powerful than he. Principally there are two Methodist Bishops ? Nicholson of Detroit, Cannon of Virginia...
...Little thought that all students should be housed on the campus. Several thousand boarded at homes in Ann Arbor. Landladies, foreseeing a loss of income, threatened suit, charged profligacy, wrote irate letters to the Board of Regents. Next year, as Dr. Little planned, a huge women's dormitory will rise on the Michigan campus...
What would happen if a motor car should run head-on into a marching column of soldiers? Rumanians found out last week. Fifteen soldiers were laid low. Five were able to rise. The other ten were rushed to a hospital, suffering from fractured skulls, broken legs, internal injuries...
...opposition to the regime had found strong expression in the socialist movement and in the revival of a nationalist movement which aimed at the consolidation of the national powers for the common good. The trials of war led to a complete debacle of the liberal system and gave rise to the Fascist movement, which, in its essence is a revolt against liberalism. Mussolini, as dictator, is the new state, and his chief aim is the galvanization of the nation's effort for the good of the whole. Hence his hostility to the parliamentary government and his attempt to reorganize...