Word: rising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said if one of us should say that the present regime in France or Britain does not suit us and consequently we are conducting a war? What immeasurable lack of conscience. . . . I have neither toward England nor France any war claims, nor has the German nation. . . . Poland never will rise again in the form of the Versailles treaty. That is guaranteed not only by Germany, but also . . . Russia...
...Confederation Generate du Travail) headed by Labor Boss Leon Jouhaux adopted a resolution which described Russia's gobbling up of three-fifths of Poland (see p. 29) as "a premeditated treason consummated against peace, and an act of treachery toward the proletariat, which had been summoned to rise against Naziism. This aid to an aggressor government places in jeopardy the lives of millions upon millions of human beings, including millions of workers...
...almost complete enrollment of the College is 3,552 as compared with last year's final figure of 3,640. The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences shows a slight increase in enrollment with 917 this year as compared with 880 in 1938-39. This increase shows a steady rise in Graduate enrollment during the past four years...
Bible of all astrologers is the French prophet Nostradamus, who died in 1566, leaving behind him a book of cryptic verses supposedly predicting (among other great events) the rise of Oliver Cromwell, the Great Fire of London in 1666, the revolt of Britain's American colonies. Nostradamus wrote: "The Chief of Fossan will have his throat cut. . . ." Said Columnist Walker's Astrologer: "Transpose fossan and you get OSSANF, the initials of Hitler's title, Oberster Sturm-Scharen-Anführer...
...rise in circulation was attributed to a decrease in the length of time for which books could be held from one months to two weeks. This change, effected a year ago, made more books available for withdrawal by limiting the time for which any one person could keep a volume...