Word: level
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...earnings of miners average from $1,142 to $1,496, annually, which is below the level of minimum subsistence...
...Martindale '24, entered in the pole vault, is the only addition made by Coach Martin upon the eve of the meet. In the past week Martindale has been making 11 ft. 6 in., on a level with D. d. Reidy Jr. '23, and it is because of this improvement that he was entered...
...lecture Mr. Mallory will tell the complete story of the expedition that reached the unprecedented altitude of 27,235 feet above sea level, a height only 1700 feet below the summit. During the climb vast snow plains and glaciers were crossed through blizzards of snow and hail. One avalanche that swept down the mountainside carried several of the Hindu helpers into deep crevasse to instantaneous death...
...Alps. Because of his experience he was chosen to make a preliminary survey of the world's highest peak in 1921.It was largely due to his knowledge of high altitudes that the Mt. Everest expedition succeeded in reaching, last May, a spot 27,235 feet above sea level--the highest point ever trod by human beings...
...outcome should but will not be tremendous. Mentality has been brought down to dead level. A baby playing with his toes merely doing psychological sums: a Falstaff plucking at the counterpane is but rearranging psychological squares and triangles; all are equalized by the cataclysmic "How much is 3 Times...