Word: higher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...issue of the Penn State Froth, which was a parody on TIME. In this parody the opportunity was taken to "razz" many of the pet aversions of the student body as represented by the Froth Staff. It appears that many of these aversions happened to be faculty men-or higher. Not obscene, it was not forbidden the mails, nor was the sale of it in the college prohibited. But-and I have this from a student-the editor was asked to resign from the local literary fraternity, the object of the front-piece caricature threatened libel suits, the wives...
When asked about the national championships held in Philadelphia last week-end, Coach Cowles said that the quality of play, especially in the inter-city matches, seemed to be higher than in past years. This he attributed to the increasing popularity of the game...
...Coach Farrell had laid the foundation for the brilliant 1925 season, a which it can truly be said that Harvard track has never reached a higher point than it did in the Triangular meet on Saturday night, February 28. When it was all over Coach Farrell said, "I have never seen a better Harvard track team. I have never seen a finer group of men than made up that team." At a dinner at the Varsity Club on the night of Thursday, February 20, he had previously said to both the University and Freshman track squads. "I'm sure...
Distance does not lend enchantment to bonds, for Canadian and Newfoundland issues of comparable intrinsic merit sell higher. U. S. bankers, it is true, have come to look upon their northern neighbors as a part of the financial fatherland, whereas Australia, with her vulnerable position in case of a great Pacific conflict, and her slightly rosy tint of political radicalism, is distinctly foreign. As a matter of history, Australia first came to Wall Street because London fell out with the legislators of Queensland* over a certain Land Amendment Act which taxed British pastoral investments despite agreements previously consummated which exempted...
...first planned to pitch our base camp on the Farnsworth-Treasure Room Plateau, but by dint of much boosting from behind we were able to drive our pack animals higher. Sliding, slipping, going down on all four haunches (something a yak is rarely forced, or even able, to do) the animals somehow reached the General Reading Plateau. Here we pitched Camp No. 1, twenty thousand feet above the sea, one hundred feet above the street car line...