Word: higher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Motor Gasoline. Dr. Gustave Egloff, research director of Universal Oil Products Co. of Chicago, declared that motorists could save 3,000,000,000 gallons of gasoline and this year $400,000,000 if motor vehicle makers made their motors for higher compression...
...most highly, and therefore I take exception to your article under the heading "People" concerning Mrs. Cora Bennett in your July 16 issue. The business of life insurance, today, needs no defender and the person who sells this service, whether it be man, woman or widow belongs in a higher classification than a peddler. . . . Mrs. Bennett is not the first widow who has been forced to sell the very commodity for lack of which her erstwhile husband makes it necessary for her to earn a living. In a day when the life insurance business is more and more considered...
...railway clubs. Jointly and solemnly they covenanted that for the next twelvemonth a cut of 2½% in pay will be accepted by every underling executive officer and director of the railways concerned. Contrarywise, 500,000 Manchester cotton workers announced last week, that they would strike for higher pay, but were locked out before they could strike by irate employers...
About 30 million votes will be cast in the election this November. It is undoubtedly true that it is easier and cheaper to get out the vote in Presidential elections than in Senatorial. But if the current cost of Senate votes is no higher than $1 each, Presidential votes will have to be more than twice as easy and cheap if the major parties are to spend less than $15,000,000 between them...
...stag lead Bambi to a solitary haunt, and teach him the necessity of aloneness. He shows him a poacher lying foolishly shot to the ground, forces Bambi to realize that man is not all-powerful, as fawns and silly does suppose, but that there must be a higher power over...