Word: higher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will be advised to take further speaking training, and will be given an opportunity to move up be a series of challenge debated with other members of the teams. In this way it is hoped to set up a competitive machine which will force the Council teams to a higher standard than they have hitherto maintained...
Although it was impossible to secure any details from 3,842 Harvard men, facts concerning 18,000 of the graduates were received above their personal signatures. This is a 23 per cent higher numerical return that has ever before been received as a result of mailing prospectuses to the Alumni. The data received otherwise was gained in every possible war: friends of the men, relatives, clubs, and all conceivable sources were investigated in order to secure an accurate report...
Coffee, Brazilian coffee, made U. S. businessmen hop and howl like Hottentots last week around Manhattan's big brass Coffee Ring. They hopped on each others toes. They hopped higher on camp stools. When they could neither hop high enough or howl loud enough to make a buyer or seller on the other side of the ring understand, they bent low and plunged for the round brass railing, elbowing each others stomachs, yelling "Seven-Jan-Santos!" or "Four-Dec-Rio!" Arms waved and fingers waggled. It was stark, raving business bedlam-the biggest, blackest, wildest day in years...
...annual rate of about 7%. While production soared much swifter than that for a few years, there is no indication that it will increase much above the present figure. For these reasons of increasing demand and a constant supply, the price trend should be upward and only a slightly higher price can bring much greater returns to the growers. It is estimated that an increase of .0025 in the present price (about .0193 in Cuba; .0230 in the U. S.) would be enough to bring an end to all the troubles of the Cuba Cane Co., whose chairman is famed...
...occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, a year or so ago, "The Yale Daily News" issued a special number in which eminent graduates of Yale were invited to express their views respecting the higher education of today. Among them, very naturally, was the Hon. William Howard Taft, who responded to the invitation with a critical piece that set a thousand tongues aquiver. In an interview with Frazier Hunt in the current "Cosmopolitan" the Chief Justice returns to his theme. "The emphasis in college life is wrong", he insists. And he proceeds to expatiate on the submergence of scholarship in extra-curricula...