Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...graduate schools, Lowell wrote, "we have developed into a mass production of mediocrity." Elsewhere, arguing more specifically in favor of a Society of Fellows, he said, "I do not want to depreciate the Ph.D., but to diminish it as the sole road to teaching in an institution of higher learning. Nor do I wish to diminish the study for the Ph.D., but to provide an alternative path more suited to the encouragement of the rare and independent genius...
...team's hitting has been erratic. The Crimson climbs all over an incompetent hurler, and this makes batting averages somewhat deceptive, for the Greater Boston League figures are higher than the overall totals. Still, the team has been getting enough runs to win, and has come from behind several times...
...imports. U.S. lead production in 1939 was 421,000 tons v. imports of only 87,000 tons. By 1956 U.S. lead production was an estimated 350,000 tons, while imports had climbed to 460,000 tons. With powerful representation in Congress, miners have tried hard since 1949 to get higher tariffs and bigger subsidies...
...Faulkner told how Flem Snopes, a repellent specimen of white trash, sidled into Frenchman's Bend. Now, in The Town (the second book in an intended trilogy), Faulkner takes Flem Snopes from his earlier triumphs over the steppingstones of other men's dead selves to higher things in Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha's county seat (which closely resembles Oxford, Miss., where Novelist Faulkner has lived for most of his life...
...Seminar has also used more guest lecturers than its directors originally planned, and expenses for procuring these speakers have been higher...