Word: rising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time for those who take this hint to be working out alternative plans to those of the President. The people whom he tried to aid in the A.A.A. and the Guffey Coal Bill and the N.R.A. will not respond to violent denunciations of the law; they will rise up and vote for sounder and better-drafted measures. Likewise is it futile to roar "Communism" and "Fascism" when additions to the Supreme Court are mentioned. An effective opposition must prove to the public that the broad interpretation of the Constitution is not needed as quickly as the President thinks...
...believe it is loose-flying. In fact the Cantabs seem suddenly to have disappeared with all their lucre; vanished in the manner of Handsome Dan. The latest and best odds we could muster were three to two, which is after all a fifty percent price rise. Perhaps the men from Lowell and Dunster Houses are getting an attack of the jitters, or maybe their previous offer was just one of those Carnival necromances...
...game, the stands were jammed full, a cheerleader even appeared. Many an Undergraduate who frankly admitted that he had never been to a basketball game before was also in the stands, and when that thrilling battle was over he had to admit it was a pretty good game. This rise of interest in Harvard has had its results, for all over New England the spurt has caused the sport to take a new lease of life. The only natural result will come when the court game is a major sport and the big League clashes are played before bigger houses...
Said London's Brandeis, Goldschmidt & Co. Ltd. in their annual Metal Report: "It is generally acknowledged that the rise of copper in recent months was largely brought about by purchases, speculative and otherwise, in anticipation of a greatly increased demand for military purposes...
...customers. In the can business, where the big customers are very big, this rule apparently could not be applied. It is too easy for the big canners to make their own cans, as Heinz and Phillips now do. And since the big fellows were uppish about a price rise, the can maker had only one alternative: cut the price to the little fellow...