Word: higher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...charming memory to ladies and gentlemen who have sat at his table, received his promotion with little comment. He was bringing the George Washington through a ponderous North Atlantic storm at the moment. After docking, all he said was: "The bridge of the Leviathan is just a little higher, but I'll be just the same up here. Come...
Simba. In Hollywood, animal pictures are held by the higher actors and actresses in some disdain. It is not considered utterly artistic to be cast opposite an ele- phant, or a cassowary or even that mental giant of cinema artists, the police dog, But Mr. & Mrs. Martin Johnson, not essentially cinema performers, are free from the prejudice. Their actors are all animals, wild, and photographed in their native state in Africa. Mr. Johnson is a wanderer of some eminence, having at an earlier date been associated with Jack London on the cruise of the Snark in the role of cook...
...week, his Budget for 1928-2Q. He spoke ably but to less than one third of the Deputies, the rest absenting themselves because the Budget details became fully known in the committee stage (TIME, Dec. 5). Balance is to be achieved at 9,502,700.000 marks, a figure higher by 367,500,000 marks than last year, but actually swollen not by extravagance but by the fact that Germany's reparations' burden rises during the coming year 750,000,000 marks to its final maximum annual total of 2,500,000,000 marks...
...situation. The small number of men and women refused admittance makes it probable that all the applicants could and did find second or third choices which proved satisfactory. There is certainly no cause for assuming that limitations on numbers is keeping properly qualified persons from the realms of higher learning. This, in the last analysis, would be the main objection to restriction. As it is, the efficiency of instruction is the most important outlook, and the restriction of the entering class is the surest way of its maintenance...
...always worth the reading by graduates of that particular institution, and reports of Harvard Presidents have set a tradition for broadness, depth, and soundness that has made their yearly appearance an event awaited eagerly by all men, of whatever college, interested in the theory and practise of modern higher education...