Word: higher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chauncey is showing the way to the hitters with 35 safe blows. Cahuncey also leads in two-baggers with five, and in home runs with three. Lord holds the palm for triples, having driven out five three-ply wallops. Jones's total of 10 sacrifice hits is still higher than those of his mates...
...flew at this height until early morning. The engine was working beautifully and I was not sleepy at all. I felt just as if I was driving a motor car over a smooth road, only it was easier. Then it began to get light and the clouds got higher. . . . Sleet began to cling to the plane. That worried me a great deal and I debated whether I should keep on or go back. I decided I must not think any more about going back...
Price of a New York Stock Exchange seat is like Jack-the-Giant-Killer's bean stalk-steadily it climbs higher. Last week it was, for a few hours, $215,000. Then William H. Bade, 29, onetime Princeton baseball captain, paint dealer, appeared; paid $217,000. Stockbroker Edward A. Pierce who sold that seat must pay approximately $4,000 New York State tax, about $20,000 Federal...
...question of who should go to college and who should not is one of recurring complexity, and any expert opinion on the matter is always welcome. The suggestions recently made in the American Magazine, by Dr. Faunce, president of Brown University, is that a candidate for higher education determine his fitness by answering a short list of questions intended to analyze his purpose in life, his interest in study and his capacity for mental effort. Dr. Faunce's questionnaire begins with the inquiries, "Do you like to study, (not merely read) about an interesting subject?" and "Do you like...
...those who have found themselves unsuited to a college education ever suspected that they would so find it until they had learned by experience. Obviously Dr. Faunce seeks to awaken saving suspicions in the minds of such as have at the outset little chance of finding value in higher education, but it is a question whether, even if awakened, the suspicions would be taken seriously. Only a few of pre-college age, or older for that matter, are able to speak freely and with assurity about their tastes and latent possibilities, where even an observer passing judgement cannot...