Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stories like this keep raising the perennial Cambridge question, "Are girls smarter?" Few Harvard students will admit the superiority of their black-stockinged counterparts. If the Cliffies do happen to take home higher grades, such happenings are easily explained away by apple-polishing or by sentimental tales of Mathla, where there was a girl who "couldn't even read numbers." The girls, on the other hand, explained their consistently better records by claims to sheer intellectual power...
...recent survey of 200 colleges showed that scholarship applicants come from families with an average income of $7,500, some 50 per cent higher than the national average family income. "Many low-income students do not apply due to the "high cost stigma," a myth which, Monro stated, must be overcome...
Living on the roof of the world, in a craggy land where even the valleys are higher than most U.S. mountains, Tibetans have learned to be cautious and practical. They conserve their energy in the chilling blasts of winter, pace themselves carefully, try each foothold for safety before moving on to another. What cannot be avoided, they bear without complaint...
...Boston University dormitory, Freshman John Thomas, 18, gangly (6 ft. 4¾ in.), growing Negro who in February jumped higher (7 ft. 1¼ in.) than any other man in recorded athletic history, slammed shut the latticework gate on an upward-bound elevator. When it rose, Thomas' size 12 left foot was jammed between the car and the shaft walls. Result: severe lacerations and bruises. After surgery, doctors predicted that High Jumper Thomas would be off the sawdust for six to twelve weeks...
...mystified view of history that exaggerates both the stability of the past and the uniqueness of the present. His prose is filled with sentimental, turgid solemnity. But the book will please those who like their religious literature to be a little lower than the angels and a little higher than Lloyd Douglas...