Word: rising
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York City TIME will cancel Subscriber Horace Jackson's subscription if and when Subscriber Horace Jackson so orders. - ED. Would Buy Sirs: I fear I am known to TIME merely as "one" Original Subscriber Brown. But I consider myself a "potent" cover-to-cover reader. Therefore, I rise to hail as "able" and soon to become "famed" The Voter's Dream cartoon in this week's TIME. Verily Cartoonist Barbour has drawn the "tycoon" of cartoons! To him "all praise," and to rival cartoonists a "thoroughgoing rebuke." My "shrewd" purpose in writing this letter is to offer...
...Gene can stand the hot air, he may make a good thing out of his sojourn in the forest of Arlen; that is, if he can see the forest for the trees. The English speaking world will rise up as a man to thank him if he debunks the pseudo-sophisticate as thoroughly as he triumphed over the fight game. But Mr. Tunney really deserves a rest and an opportunity for the sort of positive education he has hoped for. Anyone with his capacity for detail, coupled with a broad realization of underlying principles, should not waste his time taking...
...final whistle blows, the crowds rise and break into waves to flow out of the stadium. The morning-paper reporters leave, and only the evening-paper men are left. There is still the "lead" of the play-by-play story to be written. Darkness falls rapidly, and lanterns make their appearance along the counter, by whose light the typewrites click, and the pencils push faster and faster, sending to frantic sporting editors trying to catch the third edition the information that...
...stunted war with Mexico occasioned a tremendous rise of popularity for the Academy, since its graduates formed the motive power of the successful American campaigns. After 1848, under the able superintendence of Robert E. Lee, the institution expanded physically, and extended its course to five years...
...tremendous regulation and difficult schedule at West Point, detailed elsewhere in this issue, has always amazed civilians. The fact that the cadets rise at six in winter, at a little after five in summer, must be ready at any time for inspection, take military exercises in the afternoon, must be in bed at ten, must fill literally a thousand requirements--make the life hard. West Point takes justifiable pride for that. Exacting selection of men to enter the academy, sternest possible training after they enter, and ten weeks' freedom in four years' time--it brings to mind almost the mortification...