Word: rising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fees for 1937-38 will remain at the $20.00 rate instituted this year, according to Arlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene, and director of the Hygiene department. Figures are not yet available to show whether or not there will be any money left over from the rise in the fee, but if there is it will be used for needed improvements...
...when he bought his seat, the rules-requiring his personal apearance before the admissions committee. But his membership, entitling him to low commissions, saved him vast sums in his personal transactions. He paid $30,000 for his seat, saw it sink to $15,500 in the 1890s, rise to $625,000 in the 19205, sink again to the current figure, $91,000. When the membership was enlarged in 1929, he sold his "right" for $125,000, more than four times his original investment...
From 1865 to the present the Constitution's history has been "that of an instrument framed to fit a particular type of social and industrial society suddenly called upon to meet the issues of an entirely different order of life." Hence the rise of corporation lawyers, the warping of the 14th Amendment's "due process" clause from its intended protection of Negroes to its actual protection of corporations. "It had accomplished nothing for its expected beneficiaries, Rastus and Dinah, but might hold concealed blessings for transcontinental railroads and Standard Oil companies." Hence the growth in importance...
...ordinary ideas." but he has a right to consider himself more American than most. His ancestors were early first citizens of Manhattan (whose etymology he gives as Man-a-hat-ta-nink, a place of general in-toxication), Virginia, South Carolina, Texas. His grandfather's unbranded cattle gave rise to the term '"maverick"-an unbranded yearling; hence independent, a rover. With this background it would not have been surprising if Maury Maverick had turned out a clan-conscious, reactionary Southerner. Clan-conscious he undoubtedly is, but he says he is as conscious of his forbears' failings...
Standish savored every minute of the voyage. The sea was glassy-smooth, the other passengers were mostly likable, the sunsets were tremendous. Standish was so bursting with health and the love of life that he even got up early sometimes to watch the sun rise. The 13th day out of Hawaii he rose before dawn, dressed with his usual care, went forward to his favorite sunrise-watching spot, a door in the bow about 15 ft. above the water, kept open because of the halcyon weather. There he stood and watched the sun rise. As he turned...