Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...current "rectification" campaign. At a discussion meet in Peking's China People's University, Ko Pei-chi, lecturer in industrial economy, chemistry and physics, took at face value Mao's slogan "Let a hundred schrools of thought contend." Wrote Ko, recalling Communist promises of a higher standard of living: "Who are those whose standard of living actually has been raised? It is those party members and cadres who used to wear torn shoes but are now riding in sedan cars. China belongs to its 600 million people, including the counterrevolutionaries. It does not belong to the Communist...
...looked as though he might be bounced out of office. He approached his first vote of confidence after doling out so many jobs-splitting portfolios two ways-that his Cabinet became a 45-man team, biggest in French history. But he still had to water down his demand for higher taxes before the Deputies would give him a chance. In the end the specter that haunts his government, and would probably bring him down, is Algeria...
...universities in Poland, none is held in higher esteem among true scholars-and none is in a sadder state of repair-than the Catholic University of Lublin. Its run-down main building still bears the pockmarks left by World War II shells. Its students live five to a room, and the thin stew they get for lunch could well stand more meat. But as all Poles know, there is one thing that Lublin has in abundance. "Throughout all the difficult years." says the rector, Father Marian Rechowicz, "we survived on spirit...
...Sound or radio waves reflected from an approaching object have higher frequency; reflected from a receding object, they have lower frequency...
...Exchange ticker ran late, and stocks on the Dow-Jones industrial average slipped 4.91 points in an hour. But when the White House issued a reassuring bulletin, stocks turned quickly around, made up all but a 1.87-point fraction of the day's loss, then climbed steadily higher on each successive day. At week's end the average stood at 511.79, up 6.16 points to a new high for the year, and within easy range of the historic 521 peak set in April...