Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Newby spoke in response to a survey by the Illinois Committee on Discrimination in Higher Education, published Sunday in the New York Times, which revealed that less than half the placement offices polled refused to handle discriminatory job orders...
Indo-China, Stalin told Roosevelt at a private meeting, was a very important area. To the Russian dictator, who stood no higher than 5 ft. 4 in., the President said that "the Indo-Chinese were people of small stature, like the Javanese and Burmese, and were not warlike...
...proposition that the higher imagination is better than the sensate triumph...
...ships-then came steam and electric power, and gasoline and oil power, and now, atomic power. Not one of these powers ever canceled out the powers we already .had. In every development we made, the original power-manpower-became more valuable than ever. Never in history has man gotten higher rates of pay for his work than he is getting today...
...After a seven-year test involving 2,400 women and 1,699 children, Columbia University's Dr. Arthur I. Gates showed that the children of low-income families on poorly balanced diets will have higher IQs if their mothers get extra vitamins during pregnancy. But this process cannot be extended to breed a race of geniuses: once a woman is getting a healthful diet, even bucketfuls of added vitamins will have no effect on her child...