Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Miss Ward suggested that "if we made a rule that higher civil servants would have to work, for instance, on a gang in Texas, we should be getting somewhere...
...Costello met this courageously by slashing imports drastically, but meantime unemployment rose to 90,000 (out of a population of 3,000,000), and construction slumped. And every year some 30,000 to 40.000 Irish of working age are emigrating, mostly to Britain, where the average wage is 50% higher than in Ireland...
...chosen instrument for liberalizing the reactionary Spanish church and possibly even the Franco regime itself. Members heatedly deny any political role, but admit their strong liberal leanings. Said one Opus Dei priest in the U.S. last week: "We did not like the idea in Spain that all higher learning must be government-approved and government-controlled. So four years ago we set up our own university in Navarra. The government did not openly resist us. This is consistent with our idea of freedom. We are Catholics, but outside the teachings of our church we believe in total freedom...
...policy for only $100 a year, about half the cost of straight life insurance. The one trouble is that term insurance builds up no equity for the policyholder. Once he stops paying premiums, he gets no cash, has no insurance, though he can convert to straight life insurance at higher premiums at the end of his term...
...sports-minded pal to a schoolboy visitor, he remarks chummily that the first description of tennis in Russian literature "is found in Anna Karenina, Tolstoy's novel, and is related to year 1875." Whenever Pnin stops talking, Novelist Nabokov steps in with waspish, high-spirited asides on U.S. higher education, culture vultures and modern art ("Dali is really Norman Rockwell's twin brother kidnaped by gypsies in babyhood"). For the rest, Pnin's centripetal personality holds this novel together, and his centrifugal English keeps the laughs flying...