Word: high
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Governor, decided to put a high gloss on her second tongue. At Manhattan's Columbia University School of General Studies, Mia plunged into an intermediate English course for foreign students, four one-hour classes a week...
...bucket of white oil paint and bursting with perverse zeal, got to working on a great carved door of Bamberg's 700-year-old cathedral. In the morning, there for all Bambergers to see, stood a legend in German, sloshed in letters a foot and a half high: "Elvis Presley-My God." Dreamboat Groaner Presley was on U.S. Army duty some 100 miles from the scene of his deification...
...Journal's success story parallels the prodigious post-Depression growth of the business community, where stocks and bonds traded on the New York Stock Exchange alone are worth some $382 billion today, v. $96 billion just two decades ago. Its high status is a far cry from its humble and parochial birth. Brainchild of three young men named Charles H. Dow, Edward D. Jones and Charles M. Bergstresser, who had made a modest mark by peddling financial news to customers around Wall Street, the Journal was conceived as a stock-market chronicle in 1889. When Dow. Jones...
...Inside the operating room, before and between operations, the floor must be swilled with this solution, the excess being removed by a wet-pickup vacuum cleaner. Ultraviolet lamp tubes girdle the operating room, high enough to offer no risk of skin burns...
...idea began three years ago with a quiet pilot project, financed by the College Entrance Examination Board and the National Scholarship Fund for Negro Students, at Manhattan's Junior High School 43 on the western fringe of Harlem. No school could have been better chosen. Its students (85% Negro and Puerto Rican) 'rere demoralized and uninterested; de-leatist parents saw little future for their children and took scant notice of their schooling...