Word: higher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tide of the good fortune . . . seems not yet to have reached its flood. We take pride in our unparalleled prosperity. In July, 1921, more than 5,700,000 people were without work . . . at the present time the number is not much more than 1,800,000. Manufacturing . . . one-third higher than in 1927. . . . Iron and steel production more than twice as large. . . . Mining industries active...
Achievement. The sole international achievement of the Council, before it adjourned, last week, was to secure slightly higher rank for Judges of the World Court...
Such a situation in its mass and its incoherence gives food for thought, but not for regret to the graduates of colleges more normal in size and scope. They will be more inclined than ever to hold that mass production is inapplicable to higher education. If only for the reason that the imponderables, the community sense, college loyalty, individual recognition appear to be lost in the crush at an institution whose total registration is greater than the entire population of many a flourishing city. Providence Journal
Many persons supposed that little Mr. Hays, when sleeping in his apartment during the early morning hours, would occupy a higher position than any other person on the island of Manhattan. Not so. This honor belongs to Oilman Frank E. Kistler of Denver, Col., who sometimes dozes on the 38th airy floor of the new and exclusive 560-ft., 38-story-high Sherry Netherland. The third highest Manhattan residence belongs to Poloist Foxhall Keene who lives on the 36th luxurious floor of the Ritz Towers...
Arthur Brisbane, Hearst Editor, who is sometimes thought to occupy the highest Manhattan sleeping place, lives no higher than the 29th floor of the palatial Ritz Towers of which he is part owner...