Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity track squad will try to end a generally disappointing season with a final flourish in the Heptagonal Track Meet today and tonight at Cornell. The Crimson will be hard pressed to finish higher than fourth in the ten-team Heptagonals, however, since no varsity performer is a clear-cut favorite in any of the 11 events...
Currently operating higher up the dial at 107.1 megacycles, the station will accomplish the changeover before the end of the month, according to Shenefield. At the same time, WHRB will also boost its power and increase the height of its antenna on top of Dudley Hall by 20 feet...
Father is an intellectual, not a do-it-yourself handyman, and the gate stays off its hinges. "Bursting with ideas for plays and poems," he works as a rent collector as his pile of unpublished manuscripts grows higher and higher. When Mother complains that the children are undernourished. Father--decent man that he is--drops his pen, rolls up his scrolls, and heads for Calcutta to earn some rice-money...
...industry's newly expanded capacity, 2,439,000 actual tons and a volume within hollering distance of the 2,525,000-ton alltime peak set in December 1956. As customers hurried to build up depleted inventories and hedge against the threat of a strike or higher prices in July, some mills even began to ration short products on an informal basis. Steelmen expect the big demand to run through the second quarter at least, make it the biggest in steel's history...
...wish anyone harm, according to Novelist Monica Stirling, they say, "May you live at an interesting period of history." The saying may or may not be authentic, but its barbed humor especially befits the century in which the high cost of living has been surpassed only by the higher cost of staying alive. Authors Meray and Stirling take a Communist Party bureaucrat and a teen-age refugee girl, respectively, and evoke contrasting symbols of 20th century corruption and redemption...