Word: higher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...escape the heat of a Washington summer, the President went to the Black Hills. Last week, however, to the Black Hills came a hot spell; showed temperatures higher even than in the East. While Washington thermometers read 88° and New York's 84°, those in Rapid City danced about 96°. Even the trout stopped biting, and, though the President made no complaint of the heat, he discarded his coat and sat shirt-sleeved on the State Lodge porch. From the heat waves rose rumors, unconfirmed, that the President might shorten his western visit, leave...
...cubic feet of gas, the new dirigible will be more than twice the size of the Los Angeles. At 50 knots it. will have a cruising range of 12,500 miles; it can make up to 70 knots (80 miles an hour) though at the higher speed its cruising range is, of course, shortened. Larger than any British or German dirigible now planned, it will carry a crew of 45 men. Details as to the number and size of its guns and as to how its airplane convoy can return to it after a flight have not been revealed...
...certain that other cinema producers would do likewise, Paramount-Famous-Lasky Corp. last week ordered a reduction of at least 10% in wages of employes working at their Hollywood studio. Only men and women getting $50 a week or more were affected immediately. But those receiving pay in the higher brackets were obliged to accept cuts up to 25%. President Adolph Zukor knocked one-fourth off his own pay check, as did his chief officials. This made Paramount-Famous-Lasky's top payroll read for the year, according to reports from their Manhattan office: Adolph Zukor, president...
...eminently worthy of confidence. The unusual size, strength and speed of its members we can understand, but there are other more intangible attributes suggested by the sporting experts by terms and phrases such as "flexible", "graceful", "minimum of effort", "smooth running" etc., which conveys an impression of something higher and finer than the mere drudgery of pulling an oar through the water...
...results of a thorough investigation of these specimens, too full to set down here, are clear-cut and conclusive, and show beyond question a higher birth-rate, marrage rate, and fecundity-rate, among the more successful classes, which points to numerical triumph over the less successful ones in the matter of reproduction. Groups one and two produce roughly on the average of twice s many children as Groups your and five...