Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Covering elementary and intermediate calculus, differential equations, analytical geometry, and higher algebra, the examination was graded not only on correct answers, but also on the originality and brevity of the solutions...
...causing the unemployment of 18,000 workers will probably increase pressure on Congress to boost the minimum wage. Such a bill is now before Congress, and a sudden dislocation of this area's economy, such as mill operators now threaten, will increase public pressure for its enactment. With a higher minimum wage, manufacturers will find that costs of producing in the South are no lower than New England operation...
...Britain, Germany and The Netherlands, higher wages and improved living conditions are now providing a strong inducement for workers to stay at home. In France and Switzerland the governments forbade immigration agents to advertise or hold public meetings to make their pitch. Hard-luck stories from recent emigrants had their effect even in overcrowded Italy, which has sent one-third fewer settlers to Canada this year than last...
...Bouncing higher and higher ever since he set a world's high-jump record (6 ft.in 11½) in June 1953, Texas A & M Alumnus Walt Davis, now an employee in the Jefferson County sheriff's department, took time out twice in one week to put on jumping exhibitions in Beaumont and Houston, sailed over a 7-ft. bar each time...
...Your television set is not a vending machine for higher learning. It can, at best, be an invitation to knowledge. That in itself is very much . . . But the coaxial cable alone will not pump culture into anyone's veins-child or adult. Despite what any educational theorist may say, one can't possibly grow up to be educated without wide reading...