Word: risings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mirror also pulled a neat trick in the matter of price. A recent price rise to 7? has cut street sales of other papers. The Mirror outmaneuvered rival papers by sneaking into the field (with a modest 100,000 circulation guarantee) at a nickel...
...legal boundary between privacy and the press. Actually, says he, the right of privacy is neither ancient nor inalienable. It was formulated no longer ago than 1890, by Louis Brandeis, later Supreme Court Justice, and his law partner, Samuel D. Warren, in a magazine article prompted by the rise of yellow journalism. Brandeis and Warren suggested that the courts should award damages, or injunctions, against press gossips who violated "the right of each of us to keep his private life private...
...Tragedy] underlines the truth that human hopes must measure themselves against unfeeling necessity . . . Tragic wisdom is the knowledge of evil . . . By purging man of the original sin of self-sufficiency, tragedy makes him sociable and compassionate . . so that he can love without craving, strive without fretfulness, rise to success without falling into pride, fail without losing heart...
...rose to the top of the traditionally conservative Church of England not through compromise or worldly wisdom but because his abilities simply could not be ignored. Those who doubted his rise to Primate thought he would be Prime Minister instead. An Oxford don at 22 after a double First, he became a headmaster at 28, bishop at 39, archbishop at 47, and the sparkplug of so many social, educational and spiritual reforms that his sudden death at 63 took away a man uniquely fitted to give religious leadership in the crucial first decade after World...
With the costs of education continuing to rise, it is more than ever the responsibility of every University department to eliminate waste expenditures and give the student the most for his money. The Hygiene committee has done all that a part-time student group can do. The Hygiene administrators know that the student body can go no farther. It is up to the Department to cure its own ills...