Word: higher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plans for further marathons, Milton Crandall expects to have teams composed of four persons, to allow no rest intervals, to insist on a higher standard of performance from each team. Critics suggested further developments in the game as follows...
...band to play the national songs of its occupants, thus making the scene more noisy and pleasant. A flexible system of points for good dancing and demerits for loafing should be instituted; the team which was leading the marathon on points would have the flag of its nation higher on a tall flag pole in view of all spectators. This would lead to excitement and incipient rioting at all times. The couples should be made to execute a valse for one hour, a fox trot for the next, a polka...
...Perhaps something of habit has influenced him to a similar interpretation of Jesus's meteoric career, or perhaps from his viewpoint as a Jew he can but recognize as failure that tragic climax on the cross, which centuries of religious enthusiasts have eulogized as victory, and even the "higher criticism" of late years has diagnosed as the wise choice of One who knew that more could be done by dramatic death than by further years of heckled, fugitive life...
...themselves popular by making Chicago beautiful. To widen streets and boulevards, they had to buy land. To buy land they had to have it appraised. Instead of paying fixed salaries to the appraisers, they had the City Council vote to pay the appraisers on a percentage basis. Thus, the higher the price fixed by the appraiser on a site, the higher the appraiser's fee. The appraisers, in turn, paid fat sums to the fund with which Thompsonism tried to keep itself in office...
...Stay East, young man," counselled potent Meatpacker F. Edson White, president of Armour and Co., principal speaker at the Omaha convention of the National Live Stock and Meat Board. Middle Western farmers, declared Meatpacker White, should discourage "back-to-the-farm" propaganda, should hope for fewer farmers, higher prices. Confounding calamity howlers, he compared yearly incomes of farmers in the Middle West with the national average. His comparison: Nebraska $4,010; South Dakota, $3,356; Iowa, $4,180; Kansas, $3,020; U. S. average...