Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arkansas' Mills has plenty of home-state company in Congress' higher reaches. Of eight men in Arkansas' Washington delegation, four hold important committee jobs: Mills, Senator William Fulbright (chairman, Banking and Currency Committee, ranking member of Foreign Relations), Senator John McClellan (chairman, Government Operations), Representative Oren Harris (chairman, Interstate and Foreign Commerce)-a sizable share of congressional power for a state that is 32nd in population and 47th (next to Mississippi) in per capita income...
Partially because of such conditions, more than three out of four students enrolled in law, science, or letters abandon their studies after only one year. Says Chemistry Professor Prevost: "Unless our authorities act fast, the whole system of higher education will disintegrate...
...their boy. This was their first chance, since he left Philadelphia's Overbrook High three years ago to see what The Stilt might have learned since Jayhawk recruiters outbid more than 100 schools and sent him to Lawrence, Kans. for some higher education on the court...
...aside United's argument that its contract in the disputed case had stated that "All gas shall be paid for under the seller's rate schedule, or any effective superseding rate schedules on file with the FPC." The appeals court decision means that any superseding schedules, i.e., higher rates not objected to by the FPC, may be upset by a customer's objection. In jeopardy is about $300 million in recent rate increases...
...million copies of juvenile books-nearly one in three of all books published in the U.S. Some 2,000 new titles are on the shelves, and sales are expected to top last year's record-breaking $80 million. Many a children's book, even in the higher price range, dwarfs the sales of adult bestsellers. Where an adult novel usually achieves its peak sales within six months of publication and then drops off to virtually nothing, the successful children's book-e.g., Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden (1909), Marjorie Flack's China...