Word: higher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...twice appointed Charles Beecher Warner to be Attorney-General and the Senate twice rejected the appointment. But he twice vetoed farm relief bills which called for large governmental expenditures, and Congress did not override him. An increase of pay for postal employes he vetoed and later accepted when higher postal rates were provided to meet the cost. The Bursum Spanish War pension bill he vetoed and by one vote his veto was sustained. A bill for government operation of Muscle Shoals he pocket-vetoed. By firm persuasion he saved the Treasury from "the most extortionate proposal . . . ever made upon...
What can she do? There is no response to her efforts. No one will come to the aid of poor creations of nature's caprice. They are doomed to creep through existence unheeded, without pity or attention. Mankind is insensible! It is not attuned to the higher appeals of life...
...swiftly moved with or against earth's rotational force. The possibility of such change may account for some airplane accidents. Perhaps such possible changes can be foreseen, calculated, forestalled. Perhaps?not to venture upon any more specific perhapses-?he pull of the Einstein intellect will raise mankind yet higher by the bootstraps...
ANOTHER champion has risen in behalf of the much-championed colleges and their undergraduates. Mr. Hawes, a national secretary of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, has drawn on his long experience with American institutions of higher learning to conclude, so he says, that the undergraduates of today are very much like their fathers, and that there is no real cause for alarm among social thinkers in the mental and moral condition of the youth of the land...
With his questioning of the modern mechanistic trend of our higher education Dr. Muzzey has added his voice to the already appalling number of educators who advocate either directly or by implication, as Dr. Muzzey does, that we should return to the educational method used a century ago. Such criticism has brought to the fore a controversy as old as education itself...