Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remarks significantly: "I have never been able to feel much optimism regarding the possibilities of higher education when it is built upon warped and weak foundations.... philosophizing should focus about education as the supreme human interest...
...House is essentially a way of life," the President said, citing President Lowell's hope that a House would become "a social device for a moral purpose." Pusey said a House means "a group of free men who come to live together in a higher purpose than their normal, workaday lives.... This atmosphere can be created only in the Houses...
...house lights gone down for the start of the show when the boss sneaked off to her theater-top penthouse to read more scripts, study attendance records, sign checks. At 49, canny Kuba is head of the hottest movie-production outfit in Germany. She has fought her way higher than any other woman in the movie industry-Hollywood included-has ever reached on the management side of the camera...
...reach of a line, then flash for the beach on a whim. They can ignore the most ingenious lures bobbed past their noses by experts, then hit something splashed into the water by a novice. Toughest of all to figure are the canny ancients that go 60 lbs. and higher. "The big ones, they travel by themselves," said Oscar. "They like a big rock, and they settle under it for a few days. You got to think months ahead to which rock that big one is liable to pick...
...billion in the short-term market, ballooned interest rates, dried up much of the normally available money supply. The rush for the new issue proved that Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson was on the right track when he asked for removal of the ceiling so that he could price bonds higher to lure in new purchasers...