Word: higher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unofficialdom said that Army's flood control report would recommend: 1) Standard levees from above Cairo, Ill., to the Mississippi mouth, 12 feet wide (instead of 8, as now) and higher than ever; 2) Illuminated national highways atop these levees; 3) Spillways at Poydras, La.; and down the Atchafalaya Basin; 4) Lateral levee control of large Mississippi tributaries; 5) No reforestation; 6) Costs...
George A. Wallace, superintendent of the Wrentham State School for the Feeble-Minded at Wrentham, Mass., found good in morons. Said he: "Who are the morons who are making trouble in the community? They are exactly the same classes who are making trouble on the higher mental levels-pathological liars, thieves, rovers, psychopathic personalities, neurasthenics and those suffering from laziness, brainstorms, inferiority complexes, temperamental episodes, emotional instability...
...appreciate most the book-reviewer's account of the football game. His attitude is what all men who are civilized come to. Can we name the players? Not we. We sit in the Stadium with our minds higher in the clouds than the ever present airplane, our thoughts richly speculative. The article says, for example, "In a moment of thrilling suspense the ball was hurled down the field and the catcher let it slip from his hands. Here was a situation. . . The coach stood up on the side lines and with a refreshingly unsentimentalized characterization, told the player...
...means ruin. But he knows his boat and can tell from the feel what is happening. At last there is a slight jolt and the cox ahead rises his hand. But it is a tremendous relief to all when "easy all' follows the bump and one place higher on the river has been reached in safety...
...combined as nearly as possible the remarkable qualities of the late Francis H. Burr '09, of whom in 1911 President Lowell wrote in the memorial life of Burr presented with the scholarship "It seems to me that the tone of athletics, and of the whole student body, has been higher of late years than in the past, and that Francis Burr was one of the moving factors in the change...