Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...club system, it will have a lot more of them. But perhaps these troubles and Princeton's awareness of them are a good sign, an indication that Princeton is growing up. The appearance of Princeton as a perpetual country club even now is beginning to dissolve. With academic standards higher and admissions policies changed as they have been, especially since the War, to grant entrance more on personal and intellectual qualities and less on family precedent, perhaps Tiger Town will grow into its responsibilities as an intelligent college community. It's sad in a way to see a boy grow...
...admission to the better colleges, including Columbia, came to be limited to students whose secondary-school preparation included these stepped-up requirements, it would not be very long until schools, parents and students accepted and adjusted to them. College work could then begin at a genuinely 'higher educational' level, with corresponding upgrading throughout the entire four years...
...Showing a higher sense of propriety than the physician, the publications that accepted the pictures decided not to use them...
...them-Gunsmoke, Have Gun, Will Travel-that means a cushy rating spot on the top of the Nielsen Rating's top ten. TV producers recognize a mother lode when they see one, and they have moved with mule-skinner determination to pile it even higher: by last week a nerve-shattering total of eleven new westerns was slogging along the TV trail. And no one was slogging with more enthusiasm than a tall, balding journeyman writer-producer named Frank Gruber, 54, who has hacked out more words, he claims, than any other living writer. Nearly all of the words...
...youngster. Instead of competing with medium-priced cars, as originally planned, Edsel is now aimed at the low-priced buyer. Ford switched Edsel's price range from last year's $2,300-$3,489 to $2,320-$2,807 by dropping two of last year's higher-priced models (the Citation and the Pacer), thus bringing Edsel down into the price range of the top series of the Big Three's lowest-priced cars. Also slashed: accessories prices, e.g., $175 for automatic transmission v. last year's $215. In line with the trend to fewer...