Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity could mean the Ivy title, if Penn obliges by beating first-place Cornell. The Crimson would then end the season with a 4-1-1 record, a notch higher than the Big Red's 4-2. The best Yale can do is a tie for third place...
...second argument was with Toynbee, who classifies religions into higher and lower categories. Toynbee stands above faith and accuses Christianity and Christians of pride because they will not admit that their religion's major ideas, even the concept of divine self-sacrifice, are to be found in other world religions. Newbigin asked what Toynbee's criterion of judgment could be; how by setting himself above all religions he can have standards by which to criticize them...
...shift closer to Manhattan would improve service, switched American's New York base to La Guardia. New York City was so glad to get American that the gamble paid off. Smith got a rock-bottom rental, and the other airlines were eventually forced to follow, but at much higher rates. When World War II began, Smith resigned from American to become an Army Air Corps colonel. He was made second-in-command of the Air Transport Command in Washington, ended up as a major general. His old boss, Lieut. General Harold L. George, gives him the "principal credit...
...next step will be huge supersonic liners that can carry twice as many passengers as the jet at speeds of 1,500-2,000 m.p.h. and at altitudes of 60,000 ft. or higher. Both Lockheed and Boeing are already drawing plans for supersonic liners, could probably put one in the air in three years. But airframe manufacturers agree that the first supersonic liners will not appear for another ten years...
...Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Formerly Luz Mila Patiñio, the countess was the daughter of the late Simón Patiño, a Bolivian cholo (part Indian) who turned an abandoned tin mine into a fortune once estimated at $1 billion and a higher annual income than the Bolivian government, dealt out his children in marriage to Europe's thoroughbreds...