Word: higher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...profits of the proprietor of the Cackle Corner Poultry Farm. So he wrote a protest last week to U. S. Postmaster General Harry S. New. Prompt to please, Mr. New asked the National Air Transport Co. (under contract to carry U. S. mail) to have its planes fly higher over Cackle Corner...
Daniel Webster Hoan, Socialist, famed among U. S. mayors, worked his way through the University of Wisconsin, was graduated in 1905, ran a restaurant in Chicago, studied law and Karl Marx at night. Now it is his just boast that few U. S. cities have higher credit than Milwaukee; that no city is so economical. For example, Daniel Webster Hoan reduced garbage collection costs to $2 per annum per family, compared to $20 elsewhere...
...current issue of The Forum, Professor Irving Babbitt, after denouncing what he terms the "superior intellectual vaudeville" of Mr. H. L. Mencken and pointing out the ineffectuality of modern American criticism, hastens to show that the unsatisfactoriness of creative effort today is largely a result of the unsatisfactoriness of higher education. Consequently there is a lack of culture, a fact which renders Mr. Mencken's "verbal virtuosity" possible, and results in the creative instinct being stified in a welter of "idealism." Professor Babbitt in his cool analysis of facts succeeds in being distinctly more pessimistic and convincing than his arch...
...uncertainty of which at least no one will deny. Nowhere is the utter neglect of reliable standards more evident than in university and college life in general. And when, in the face of this fact, the impossibility of attaining an intrinsically sound basis outside of the circle of higher education in considered, the outlook is sinister. Standards conducive to stabilization are all too few, and the average student in most cases has enough intelligence to regret the time, energy, and aspiration he loses in pursuing chimeras ineffectively and in obtaining indefinite results, Perhaps Professor Babbitt, in placing most...
Anxious to lift the conversation to a higher plane, a lady from a Boston paper inquired whether Sir Thomas thought that jazz had affected the culture and life of manhood, "in the deeper sense of the word...