Word: higher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard is John Silas Reed '10. He has been officially read out of membership in his class at Harvard, but under the walls of the Kremlin in Moscow, beside the gray stone tombs of Lenin and the leaders of the 1917 Revolution, there is a stone a little higher than any but Lenin's, which records the part played by this man in a great struggle...
...been shaken, if not destroyed, by their failure to prevent the present flood from inundating some 20,000 square miles and making homeless some 600,000 people. But expert opinion still clings to them as the backbone of flood prevention. Doubtless they will, in the future, be built higher and stronger, but, as far as can at present be determined, the levee will always carry the main burden of confining the river and to it all other methods will be not more than adjuncts, auxiliaries. Writing for the New York World Herbert C. Hoover said: "The levee system needs...
...trade paper, the Taxi Weekly. At almost any corner you may occasionally see drivers who are not "cruising, cruising," and have been lucky enough to find parking space, poring over the news of their profession. Last week, for example, idle* eyes lit up at the screamer headline "HIGHER CAB RATE PLANNED...
...provide the equality in opportunity for intellectual development now made possible through endowed education or through the wide distribution of expense as in the case of state universities. This is the suggestion made by Mr. Rockefeller, as it has been offered by others as the natural consequences of higher tuition...
...plan would serve two further ends: It would discourage parrotlike repetition in examinations of facts heard in lectures, and would encourage the more able students to higher efforts. It is, of course, understood that the mid- year and final examinations would demand thorough knowledge of the work in the lecture periods...