Word: higher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course, later was graduated from the Harvard Law School, and began to practice in Cleveland. His wife was Louise Harkness, heiress. For two years he has been a diligent, quizzical member of the Ohio Legislature, flying from Cleveland to Columbus to attend to his duties. Now he will fly higher and further than ever...
...rate now obtaining. Last week call money was at 8% to 12%, time loans at 7¾%, commercial paper at 5¾%, bankers' acceptances (60 days) at 3 3/8%. The Federal Reserve rediscount rate was at the very bottom of the money market, was lagging far behind the general trend toward higher and higher interest rates. Theoretically an index to prevailing conditions, the 5% rediscount rate was actually an exception to them. That is why Mr. Warburg termed the rate "grotesque . . . out of line...
...college education is not a financial advantage, but a positive detriment according to Dr. Harold F. Clark, Professor of Education at Teachers College. Mr. Clark's two points to prove higher education financially unprofitable are not so revolutionary as his proposed cure. There is, to be sure, some significance in his statement that more men are being trained for certain professions than can be absorbed by them without a consequent lowering of the standards of remuneration. Recognition of this condition is necessary to prevent serious loss, but Mr. Clark's bureaucratic demands for state control of the number of professional...
Familiar even to Western minds is the endlessly-turning Buddhist wheel-of-life. The wheel represents the cycle of conception, life, death, ascent to a higher plane (or descent to a lower); then reincarnation; and then, again, conception, life, death, ascent...
...pure amusement this film ranks high, as an all-talking, even higher, but in comparison with the best products of the old "silver screen" it falls lamentably short. In the whole picture there are really only two changes of scene, which is even less than one has on the stage. All sense of tempo, a quality which has been highly developed lately, is completely lost due to the necessity for close-ups as the characters speak. And the last and worst sin in this production is an illogical plot which must be obvious to even the least critical person...