Word: highe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...continued, but in Manhattan the 81 students were busy answering reporters' questions about other matters. In clipped British accents, Masai Tribesman Geoffrey M. Ole Maloy reported that his hunting trophies include four cobras, two antelopes and a rhinoceros. But his tribal status, Maloy explained politely, is still not high. He has never taken part in the Eunoto ceremony (killing a lion in order to become an elder). "My father does not wish that I participate. Although he killed a lion in his youth, he has become somewhat involved in Western civilization...
Wouk feels, though, that Judaism is gravely threatened today in America, and he threat is not the traditional one of exclusion or persecution. He personifies Judaism as "Mr. Abramson" disappearing down a broad highway at the wheel of a high-powered station wagon, with the golf clubs piled in the back. Wouk puts it in terms of an imaginary news tory: "Mr. Abramson left his home in the morning after a hearty breakfast, apparently in the best of health, and was not seen again. His last words were that he would get in a round before going...
Sculptor Henry Moore sits in an aged wicker chair on a crumpled cushion. He is small and compact (5 ft. 7 in., 154 Ibs.), with a high-domed face that is benign yet cragged. Thinning strands of greying hair stretch errantly across his head. From beneath brows that jut at least an inch beyond pale blue eyes, he stares intensely at a small plaster shape held in his left hand. The right hand, thick-wristed and broad, with straight fingers that are surgically muscular, holds a small scalpel. In a few minutes, the chunk of thumb-shaped plaster takes...
...FARM OUTPUT will come within 1 % of last year's record high. August rains in most parts of nation are boosting predictions for record corn crop of 4,381,772,000 bushels v. 3,779,844,000 last year, but wheat crop may drop to 1,116,405,000 bushels v. record 1,462,218,000 last year...
Most businessmen do not think that the high cost of borrowing will choke off the boom. Corporate income taxes today trim the real cost of borrowing money by as much as one-half, with the result that the effective cost of borrowing money is still lower than at many other times in U.S. history. Moreover, a borrower who really needs the money is not likely to quibble about half a point...