Word: high
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the flood-fighting pace quickened in Terre Haute, the high water receded rapidly upstream at Peru, where a deluge poured over the top of a levee Wednesday night and forced 675 people to flee...
This means that a run to New York, for example, could be managed for as little as $8 per passenger. Since there is a minimum rental charge on the planes, flights to points nearer home will be somewhat less money-saving. Nonetheless, club members have high hopes of exploiting the weekend rush to women's colleges such as Smith and Mt. Holyoke...
Working on a grant from the Carnegie Foundation, and with the assistance of the Educational Testing Service (part of the College Board organization), Dr. Conant visited 55 comprehensive small town high schools in 18 states. His report takes the form of ad hoc suggestions for improving these schools and others which presumably resemble them. The suggestions range from increased time for teaching English composition to requiring that talented students study science and foreign languages...
...study also found that the "ideal" college was co-educational and had a national reputation, an outstanding faculty and high scholastic standards. A majority of parents preferred colleges to be small, private, and without religious affiliations...
...would rather students wrote the paper," Kluckhohn said. "It would be a more demanding tasks, and would be judged by extremely high standards." He added that he has discussed the idea with all the section men in the course and received their enthusiastic approval...