Word: risings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some unintentional comic relief. Arguing that it was unsporting to hold Mrs. Luce's old political speeches against her, Orator Dirksen cried: "Why thrash old hay or beat an old bag of bones?" As the galleries guffawed, Minnesota's Democrat Hubert Humphrey played for laughs. "I must rise to the defense of the lady," he said...
Steel producers came back with a suggestion that if anything needs federal investigation it is "the concentration of power in the union which is what gives rise to the problems of industry self-protection...
...thing, the Administration's reaffirmed decision to provide an adequate non-resident facility--sometime, somewhere--implies that the percentage of commuters is expected to neither rise nor decline drastically. It is now 11.4 per cent, and this figure hides an amazing potpourri of commuter types. Of 513 non-residents this year, about 30 per cent are "non-resident members of residential Houses"--meaning that, after "living in" for two years, they have moved out for one reason or another, retaining "courtesy membership." These students do not, of course, belong to Dudley House...
Predicting a "significant rise" in the number of commuting students, Monro speaks of 1000 non-residents as "by no means out of the question." Though this is speculation, and not a proposal, the Dean thus underlines the greater role commuters are destined to play in College planning--three, five, ten years in the future...
Finding two articles which rise above the sub-mediocre and "enigmatic" norm, Mr. A. can find no words to explain his sense of their quality or their meaning. He only mentions them briefly in a negative context. He also conveniently avoids a judgment on the sincerity or validity of the point of view expressed in Mr. Smith's letter.... Sara Dakin...