Word: higher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first to marvel at gas illumination (1849). Mrs. Fillmore installed the first bath tub and cook stove in 1851. The stove brought protests from her Negro cook who preferred the huge open basement fireplace with its cranes and hooks. In spring and summer the Fillmore family moved over to higher Georgetown, "because the marshes between it [the White House] and the River made malaria inevitable." President Pierce first benefited from a central heating plant...
Lead Pencils. Higher duties asked and objected to. Nathan Bilder of A. W. Faber Pencil and Rubber Goods Co. declared: "It certainly is a display of extreme selfishness when an industry that leads the world and exports more than twice the value of competing importations asks for higher duties to exclude importations amounting to only 2% of consumption...
Umbrellas, Bleached Beeswax. Higher duties asked...
...speed proportionate to its "past performance record" (.0 to 1,000). Then a so-called Chance Machine distributed ball bearings so that ten added impulses were given haphazardly among the horses by a second series of electric motors. Thus any horse might suddenly frisk ahead, outdistancing rivals with a higher starting speed, only to "stumble'' in the middle of the race or "blow up" at the finish...
...rigours of academic slavery have been borne long and patiently by the students of Harvard, but it remains for feminine wiles to solve the problem of servitude and point to an escape from the rules and regulations attendant upon procuring a higher education. The beautiful Bryn Mawr damsel lounging on her silken pillows until the Sabbath noon, a buttered roll in one hand and a volume of Aristotle in the other is a symbol of emancipation from the monotonous machinery of the modern institution of learning. Not to be outshone, the Wellesley intellectual blows smoke rings in the safety...