Word: higher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...done, officials of the Exchange made an announcement bare and ominous ?the amount of money loaned to brokers had risen to $4,432,907,321, a sum so vast that brokers slept uneasily, fearing that money vendors might suddenly demand repayment of loans or blandly ask for higher interest payments...
...very definitely that four years spent at college are not a gift-edged security against the rigours of the broadlinge a fact which needs perhaps some emphasis now that Seniors and other graduating students are about to be interviewed by employers-many of them not, at all "sold on" higher education...
Starting the game with the one point handicap given the Crimson players in the league games because of their higher rating, the University horsemen soon galloped into the lead and were never headed. Clark started his scoring in the first period and tallied in all but the last chukker. He made the best shot of the night at the start of the third period when he travelled at full speed down the center of the riding ring, hit the ball at about quarter length, and with a powerful sweep, drove it the remaining distance in the air for a score...
...most outstanding. And arising, not from this particular dispute, but from the conditions that make it typical, there started yesterday in the New York Times Magazine, a series of articles entitled, "The Crisis in American Colleges." Thus a muddled situation is resolving itself into an inchoate philosophy of higher education. What is needed is a systematic philosopher to make an exposition of the subject as a basis for future discussion, and to remove from the public mind the confusion invoked by declarations that the ideal liberal education should be of no practical value...
...opinion is that the religions of men, their yearnings for higher things, differ as much as their theologies differ. If this conclusion is correct, anything that modifies man modifies his theology...