Word: rising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Feeling of Security." In the course of further Rearmament debate in the House last week Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin made unobtrusively perhaps the most important declaration from His Majesty's Government since the rise to power of Adolf Hitler in 1933. A basic tenet of Nazi policy today is that, excluding Soviet Russia, the rest of Europe including Britain must unite in a Western Pact. This regional pact to guarantee peace only on Germany's frontiers in the West, leaving the Fatherland free to wage war in the East, has long been resisted by France with her doctrine...
...verdant Sahara desert settled in the valley of the Nile and were forced by the difficulties of making a living to use their brains. Here and in the lands to the east arose the earliest civilizations. To study "the most remarkable process known to us in the universe: the rise of man from savagery to civilization," Professor James H. Breasted founded The Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, and sent out fourteen expeditions to Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Anatolia, Iraq, and Persia. "The Human Adventure" was produced under the supervision of Professor Breasted during the Institute's excavations...
...Traylor knew that the assets of her deceased husband's estate were all that stood between Mrs. Busby and her children and comparative privation. Yet he was willing to stake their all on a rise in the market. . . . His conduct . . . was not only imprudent and negligent but positively reckless...
...threatened, it being obviously to their immediate advantage to have contractors competing for labor. And the locals in the main are against indenturing apprentices. Wages for common labor in the building trades are already above 1929 levels, while skilled labor on the average is near the old highs. The rise has actually been greater than apparent because building mechanics in Depression often worked for considerably less than union scales. What the building industry fears is that labor costs will rise so sharply that the promised boom will be gravely retarded...
...whole civilization-and consequently the world's-is the result, says Ludwig, of the river's perennial lessons. "The calculation of the height of the flood produced the measurement of height, the marking out of single fields with boundaries that were washed away every year gave rise to square measure, to the protection of property and the settlement of boundary disputes. It was the Nile that created mathematics, law and equity, money and politics, long before any other association of people on the earth possessed them...