Word: higher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jersey City, N. J., the net public debt per capita is $241-higher than in almost any other U. S. city of 30,000 or more population. The mayor of Jersey City is Frank Hague, a member of the National Democratic Committee, close friend of Candidate Smith. Upon these two facts, with colorful amplification, a one-man spectacle was staged in Jersey City for several weeks, up to last week, when the one man's amplifier, his voice, broke down...
...Berrys who won, with their lower bid, by promising to carry on the granite founded traditions of The Aberdeen Journal, whereas Aberdonians feared that Viscount Rothermere, though his bid was the higher, would debase the Journal to the level of his blatant London Daily Mail. As everyone knows Lord Rothermere has formed a $15,000,000 holding company to compete with the Berrys in buying up British provincial newspapers. On another day, last week, this rivalry flamed up again at Derby, where the Berrys bought the Daily Express and Lord Rothermere the Daily Telegraph. London newspapers of these potent rivals...
...General Education Board keeps an eagle eye for deserving universities, colleges, schools. It gives them, not buildings or grounds, but endowments for higher faculty salaries, new chairs, departments, special lines of research. It has also aided the public schools in the rural sections of the South...
...American Inquisitors," as its subtitle shows, is a commentary on Dayton and Chicago, and their respective problems of American education, in which religion, on the one hand, and patriotism, false or real, on the other, came into conflict with what in some other places are called the higher aims of education...
Pennsylvania is accorded only an outside chance Saturday against the heavy eight stroked by Captain John Watts '28 and the last Navy crew. For a Crimson victory, it will be necessary for Watts to pace his boat at a beat three or four points higher than the 36 strokes to the minute he has used successfully on the Charles against M. I. T. and Cornell...