Word: higher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard Business School last night, the annual prizes founded in 1923 by Edward W. Bok were announced. J. H. McGraw, president of the McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, was awarded the gold medal for distinguished contemporary services to advertising in recognition of his lifelong service in the raising of higher standards of advertising in the business press of the country. A total of $14,000 in prizes was awarded "for distinguished individual advertisements and advertising campaigns...
...Today, however, it is on a higher level than that of any other country in the world." Those who supposed that Architect Cram, when he spoke of "the higher level," was referring to the silver splinters of sky scrapers in Manhattan and elsewhere, were soon disabused. Architect Cram, apostle of the gothic, has only an academic interest in these astonishing and often beautiful towers. He disapproved of them on principle but said that he "would like to try to build one." Himself a great builder of churches, he referred to U. S. religious monuments...
...What the country needs most is a good five-cent cigar," was a dictum of late Vice President Thomas R. Marshall which passed into the nation's higher political criticism. That statesman would doubtless derive considerable satisfaction at the present triumph of his wish. In 1927 the production of 5 cent cigars was 3,175,157,870, or 48.3% of all cigars manufactured, and an increase of 10% over the 5 cent production of 1926. Snuff, another inexpensive form of tobacco, likewise established a new high record with 40,154,792 pounds, an increase of 5.4%. The decline...
...student fails on examinations of work done in reading periods it will be his own fault. If he takes higher honors than be ever thought he could that, too will he his own fault, albeit a happier...
Nothing could rank higher than the figures of Dean Kent in Honesty. The statistics were gathered in a laudable spirit of investigation. There remains only the standard of Service, upon which only an expert would venture classification...