Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This fall the athletic directors of each college have estimated the additional expense involved in forming the soccer and lacrosse leagues. Since they are on the geographical edge of the league, Harvard, Dartmouth, and Cornell will have higher traveling costs than the other four colleges...
...grew up, Libby turned from Moanin' Low to higher-brow efforts: American folk music, serious drama. In 1945 her second husband, Actor Ralph Holmes, died from an overdose of sleeping pills. Five years later Topper, who had become a popular, intelligent youth and the center of Libby's life, died in a mountain-climbing accident on Mount Whitney (TIME...
...grey-green eyes, Dr. Margaret Elaine Morgan, a topnotch Indiana psychiatrist. Governor Craig was not deterred by the fact that her brother, Ivan H. ("Jack") Morgan, was feuding with him in G.O.P. councils (he has since booted the brother out of party office, kept the sister on at a higher salary than his own-$20,000, highest on the state payroll...
...Toynbee, all the "higher religions," i.e., Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, are simply separate ways to the City of God. Toynbee sees the prophets of other religions as precursors of Christ, and their sufferings "Stations of the Cross in anticipation of the Crucifixion." But he does not explicitly accept Christ's divinity. Toynbee also sees Christianity as the "climax of a continuous upward movement of spiritual progress" and thinks that "a 20th century historian might venture to predict that Christianity's transfiguring effect on the World up to date would be outshone by its continuing operation in the future...
...existing churches. In fact, a return to orthodoxy would be merely a false and temporary refuge. Instead, Toynbee suggests a kind of spontaneous rally of faith, possibly even the emergence of a new spiritual species. In the distant future, he foresees a kind of blending of all the higher religions-"a terrestrial Communion of Saints who would be free from sin . . . because each soul . . . would be cooperating with God at the cost of sore spiritual travail...