Word: rising
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opinion was expressed in a report published after their conference: "The publishers are in possession of no facts that lead them to believe that an increase [in newsprint price] is warranted on an economic basis." From Toronto came a report, quickly denied by Premier Taschereau, that the price-rise policy would be reconsidered by Canada's pulpsters...
Reference was recently made in a CRIMSON editorial to several relatively small features in Lowell House which give rise to the impression that the House is to be started off with a strong Anglophile bias. It was further cited that several tutors in the House by various of their semi-public remarks had materially aided in substantiating this impression...
...difficulties of getting a full and fair vote for the election of class officers, which has been the center of recent discussion over the senior elections, have given rise to a new attempt at their solution. At Amherst there has been proposed a system which, it is thought, will provide for a fair vote and will allow a full gauging of undergraduate preference both in nomination and final election...
...rise in popularity of touch football is noteworthy. The statistics follow...
...play of words, voice and gesture when addressing a crowd. Ambitious, sincere, he is not altogether popular in Tulsa where small minds cavil that it is his personality, not real ability, which has carried him so far. The Tulsa World once openly charged that Col. Hurley was trying to rise to political heights purely on his good looks. Fairer observers, however, recall how he won a famed murder trial for a Tulsa friend simply by the intonation of his "Yesses" and "Noes" on the witness stand...