Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University, by referring to the Leverett addition as "twin towers," has emphasized that Harvard is being forced to "build high" for the first time. Commenting on the plans, President Pusey stated that "because of the scarcity of land in Cambridge, Harvard will have to begin to build higher structures" and that he was "delighted with the solution of a difficult architectural problem...
VENEREAL DISEASES. Of the reported 136,039 cases of syphilis in all stages, Southern California's migrant agricultural workers claimed 10,000. Syphilis was slightly higher; gonorrhea was down...
...scramble for shares shows up most clearly in lower-priced stocks, which are more attractive to the public than higher-priced blue chips. When Lehman Bros, brought out its One William Street Fund at a price of $12.50, it got more shareholders in a day than F. W. Woolworth Co. (now selling for about 50) has had at any one time in its history. Last week issues selling for less than $25 a share numbered nine of the week's 15 most active stocks. Rumors of stock splits, and resulting lower prices per share, also sent higher-priced stocks...
...Jessie C. Lee, a widowed tourist-home operator in Albany, N.Y., the friendly letter from the local Arthur Murray School of Dancing was an invitation to waltz into a new and more exciting life. She signed up for dancing lessons, paid higher and higher fees to win the privilege of attending parties and other extra functions at the school. After six weeks, she was persuaded to sign up for an $11,800 lifetime membership. One of the school instructors thoughtfully accompanied her home and to the bank to round up the payment. But with half her life's savings...
...Checker taxicabs, next month will begin production of a family-type passenger car called the Superba, which it claims will "perform like a pleasure car and take punishment like a taxicab." The new car, powered by a six-cylinder engine, will be about 198 in. long and somewhat higher and narrower than most U.S. cars, sell in the $2,500 price range...