Word: higher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weak, silly gesture but a high-school teacher dealing with current events has considerable opportunity to make friends or enemies for magazines. I can assure you that your circulation will not increase through any influence of mine unless I can be convinced that your standards are higher than the issues of your magazine I have had up to date have led me to believe...
...swiftly, scuffing up tiny clouds of earth from the road. His wife or his baby daughter may have been in his mind; or perhaps young Kevin O'Higgins was pondering some one of his problems as Minister of Justice of the Irish Free State. At 34, he had climbed higher than most politicians are content to find themselves at 64. The noon sun poured down, hot and germinal. A motor car, approaching at great speed, droned louder...
...Champion of the U. S. Navy last week climbed above Washington, D. C., as far as his Wright Apache seaplane, with a Pratt & Whitney "Wasp" motor, would take him. When he came down, his instruments were certified as showing 37,995 feet (7 1/5 miles), nearly a mile higher than the previous world's altitude record for seaplanes, made by Champion Champion...
...ceiling of a plane is the highest altitude it can reach-a light scouting plane, for instance, would have a much higher ceiling than a heavy bombing plane...
...July 31, 1914 (the day before Germany declared war on Russia) Prince Oscar, then a youth of 26, utterly disgusted the Court by espousing in morganatic union a comparative nobody: Ina Maria, Countess of Brassewitz. That a royal prince should look no higher was considered in the very poorest taste. That Prince Oscar and his countess should settle down in unobtrusive happiness to the duty of rearing children (four), was deemed commendable but dull...