Word: rising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American literature course disappeared. For the current year English 70 has been discontinued, and when it is resumed in February of 1938, there is no telling what changes the mysterious withdrawal of Harvard's Whistler will have wrought. His flight from Harvard caused regret among many students and gave rise to renewed criticism of the administration. It would seem that nothing can be done now to right the wrong in Mr. De Voto's apparent conflict with the University last spring...
...first offering of the Film Society will be a series of programs entitled "A Survey of the Film in America 1895-1932." This particular series deals with the rise of American film from its crude beginning through the early Pickford era and the famous classics of Griffith down to the first Walf Disney and the coming of sound. The first part of the program will be given on Thursday, January 28, to be followed by showings of the rest of the series on February 9 and 25, and March 9 and 25. The films will be presented at the Institute...
...unfulfilled longings of a love-starved World." In Lancaster, Ohio last week the Eagle-Gazette announced that it will never again refer in print to the King & Mrs. Simpson unless: 1) they "elope"; 2) King Edward permits himself to be "directly quoted" on Mrs. Simpson; 3) the affair gives rise, as the horrified Eagle-Gazette fears it may, to "a Continental revolution...
...service on the Western Front through pressure from Berlin liberals. At the age of 23 he was already a potent figure. He was spared to live through the bitter years of Germany's civil war and inflation, to draw with biting irregular line the gross Prussian junker, the rise of the Nazis, the swinish profiteer and his fat mistresses. He escaped Nazi concentration camps by going to the U. S. in 1932 to teach at the Art Students' League. Nazis did the best they could by burning his books, persistently referring to him as a Jew. Actually George...
...appears, however, that it is to distinguish the parts of paths which consist in alterations of elevation from those which do not, thus averting the possible crisis of one's decreasing his elevation in undue proportion to the rise therein of the path...