Word: loftier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...settled Hoti's business-let it be!-Properly based Oun- Gave us the doctrine of the enclitic De . . . This man decided not to Live but Know- . . . Leave him-still loftier than the world suspects, Living and dying." Robert Browning, A Grammarian's Funeral...
...with a theory until it is validated or disproved ... to improve, if he can, everything that exists under the sun, and beyond that to create things upon which the sun has never before shone . . . the freedom to better the lot of mankind, that each generation may rise to heights loftier than any won by its predecessor." Already science offered wool from silk and silk from coal, plywoods, plastics, rustless steels, fire-resistant wood, synthetic finishes, bendable glass, luminous paint, two-way private radio, furniture derived from air, water and coal, shoe soles of impregnated carpeting, fluorescent lighting, packaged houses, television...
...forced for the most part to hug the roads, kept so hot after the retreating Italians that the latter scarcely fought even rear-guard actions, until they were within 15 miles of the railhead. The British, in independent little bands of armored cars and Bren carriers commanded by nothing loftier than shavetail lieutenants, flanked two successive defense lines, captured 1,100 men and 200 mules, and got the railway terminus. They pressed on, trying to catch as many Italians as possible before they got into really rough terrain near Eritrea's capital, Asmara...
...Clapper conclusions almost exactly the day he does. With the same painful care that his daily readers were exercising, he had been trying to spell out very simply just what was the central issue in the 1940 campaign. The war had obscured the issue, Candidate Franklin Roosevelt talked about loftier things, Candidate Wendell Willkie some how couldn't seem to make it plain...
...scooped up blood-red lava from the great holes of Mauna Loa, Kilauea, Hualalai, and poured it steaming across the island of Hawaii. To her Hawaiians sacrificed many a pig, many a steer, precious possessions. In caverns formed by the hardened lava, the corpses of ancient kings and the loftier chieftains were interred, with weapons, canoes, feather cloaks, as richly red and yellow as volcanic fires...