Word: higher
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jostling armies of liquid-eyed children still play in its filthy, glass-strewn alleys, its dark hallways, and in vacant lots, where the refuse of generations is packed solid, a foot higher than the sidewalks. Its old men are sad. The young men who haunt its streets by night-callow bravoes with oiled black hair, sharp suits and the melancholy curse of pimples-loiter in knots with expressionless faces, just as they did when Frank Costello had a gun in his pocket and was one of them...
There is some basis for the alarm which many of the French have evinced at the new program. During the '30's France listened reluctantly to British defence of a strong Germany against the East and paid a higher price than either Britain or the U.S. for doing so. Schuman will find little support in the French Chamber for ratification of the plan by rating the Russian danger over the German today. He must instead defend the success of the Occupation in disinfecting Germany as justification for her return to self-control...
Collectively the Niemans boast a total of 19 children. Their families are living in houses in and around Cambridge, and the journalists condemn local rents as "higher than anywhere else...
...world. Out of their acquaintance was to come a challenge aimed at everything that many U.S. colleges and universities had come to hold most estimable: spreading campuses, more & more courses, a steady stream of glossy new facts. The sharp question that Hutchins was to put to U.S. higher education (in the loudest of voices): What shall we do with the facts? Robert Hutchins got his chance to make the challenge just two years later. At 30 he became the "boy wonder" president of the University of Chicago. Not long after, he invited Adler to come out and be a .professor...
...January, when $2.8 billion of insurance refunds is paid out to veterans, there would be a lot more money around. Pondering this, along with the Federal Government's whopping deficit and higher industrial costs created by 1949's pension settlements, Brookings Institution's President Harold G. Moulton last week warned: "You might as well forget about much cheaper manufacturers' products." Although he predicted a drop in business next spring, the U.S. was currently in "a period of creeping inflation...