Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Gray's own lucid structure and fine woodcuts by his hospital colleague, Dr. Henry Vandyke Carter, the first 750-page (3 Ibs. 4 oz.) edition was a medical bestseller. The British Medical Journal quickly called it "The manual of anatomy," and it soon outsold the much-higher-priced standard work. Quain's Anatomical Plates...
...make "some use" of the curses. One of their uses, he found, is to call attention to the same hatreds in modern man's own heart-"we are, after all, blood brothers to these ferocious, self-pitying, barbaric men." Another use: they serve as a reminder that the higher one is, the more one is in danger of falling. "The Jews sinned in this matter worse than the Pagans not because they were further from God but because they were nearer to Him. For the Supernatural, entering a human soul, opens to it new possibilities both of good...
FARM HARVEST will be 9.5% higher than ever before, despite federal crop controls that cut back planting to smallest acreage in 40 years. Good weather and better growing methods will raise per-acre yield of corn from last year's 46.8 to 49 bu.; of wheat, from 21.7 to 27 bu.; of cotton, from...
...boosted the price of U.S. bonds (TIME, June 30). Many, gambling on a continued rise, bought the new bonds with nothing down. But in June it also became plain that the recession had hit bottom and the FRB might have to tighten credit. Bond buyers saw the promise of higher interest ahead and dumped their holdings. The speculative bubble burst. As prices fell, the yields reached as high as 3! on Government bonds. The Government bond market turned so weak that when the Treasury floated a $16.3 billion issue of one-year certificates, the FRB had to support the market...
...living with their sadistic prostitute aunt in the slums of Bombay. At her command, they spend their days in the streets and trams of the city, begging money in a squeaky singsong chant. But an old, kindly bootlegger urges them to the slum child's equivalent of the higher life: "You have been given two hands to work with. Start with small things first, and bigger things later...