Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fund for the Advancement of Education is the balance between liberal arts and practical training for American colleges. In an attempt to appraise different educational philosophies and practices, representatives of the faculties of 21 colleges have formed a committee to analyze the means and ends of American higher education...
...years, pressure for higher state and local government expenditures has been building up, particularly in demands for schools, roads and mental hospitals...
...they might turn out to be twice as much. If the industry can avoid major shutdowns but has to make temporary layoffs because of seasonal declines in sales, shortage of materials or strikes in supplier plants, the 8?-an-hour cost could jump to 16? or higher, and the company's bill for G.A.W. would go soaring...
...innocent man (Victor Mature). He drives a pitchfork into the brute's back as if he were a bale of hay; and yet as he strikes, his eyes convey the heart-stricken awareness, as his lips express the unshakable determination, of an Abraham commanded by a higher power to destroy a life that is dear to him. In this scene, the morality of violence is brought vividly into question, and the question has seldom been answered with more pith and natural majesty...
Questions concerning the existence and nature of God are consistently important to undergraduates and have become increasingly so during their higher education. Virtually 80 percent of those polled said that the nature of God was at least of "considerable" importance to them, and more than 75 percent said this concern had increased since they had entered college...