Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...firmly believe that the imposition of these two oaths, but particularly the disclaimer clause, strongly infers, first, that American institutions of higher learning have not fulfilled their centuries-old responsibility to select and and support students of loyalty and integrity, and second, that American college students, as a group, are particularly suspect of disloyalty as opposed to the general citizenry...
...over the same span, the outgo estimate has also crept upward by $1.9 billion, reaching $78.9 billion. Biggest reason for the outgo increase: rising interest rates, upping the cost of carrying the national debt for the fiscal year from $8 billion to $9 billion. Net result of the higher income and outgo estimates: the budget still shows the skimpy surplus, about $100 million, that the President predicted back in January...
This ability to transform themselves quickly to cope with new conditions is a specialty of humble bacteria, whose constitutions are relatively simple. It is an ability that higher animals cannot emulate, but may have reason to envy...
...liked bigger, chrome-decorated cars. Detroit guesses that the compacts will appeal particularly to people on tight budgets. But it is not certain, since consumers no longer buy cars to match their pocketbooks. Most buyers of the low-cost foreign cars and of the Rambler and Lark come from higher-income brackets...
...this inquiry, again the table revealed its value for boys of status and background different from that of the original test group. The Cambridge-Somerville Study included boys of higher intelligence, of better economic status, and of better home neighborhoods than those in the Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency study...