Word: loftier
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...summer theaters have any loftier aim than to make some money, despite inflated operating costs.*Ninetenths of the scheduled shows are old Broadway hits. About 25 companies plan to try out new plays-originally one of the big purposes of summer theater groups...
...hard-shelled Frederick Van Nuys and North Carolina's implacable Old Democrat Josiah Bailey. At first blush, the two bills look like a bold-faced -and well-lobbied-attempt to anticipate a pending decision of the highest court in the land. But the Congressmen had an issue far loftier than lobbies. They were in full cry over States' rights...
...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...