Word: level
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will be the end of the cigar--the vicious Invincible without which no Oral Examination is complete--the mild, light brown ten-centers, not to consume one of which is to admit of a still-undeveloped manhood? The gods of incense forfend that they should all descend to the level of the yeast cake that one is supposed to order with every other meal...
...year. The situation this season was much the same as last year and Coach Bingham used similar methods in bringing about ultimate victory. During both his years as coach of the University track men, his great achievement has been the wonderful development of the team from a comparatively low level to a high one, all in the space of a few months. It is a question as to whether the 1921 or 1922 season was the most striking success. Last year the victories in the Princeton and Oxford-Cambridge meets and the splendid showing in the Intercollegiates made...
...excellent example. Without exception however, the cast rendered their parts well. Miss Cleveland was occasionally unconvincing and Mr. Turner's Romeo-like sobbing under the stress of grief was a bit absurd. But these are minor points. If the Jewett Company never dropped below the level of their current production, we should have little cause for complaint...
...these days of the printing press, electrical appliances, and the automobile, it is difficult to realize that not very long ago the general culture of our own Anglo-Saxon ancestors had not reached a much higher level than that of some of the more cultured tribes of America...
...best things, with one or two exceptions (notably the amusing opening ballad, which should be sung to the obvious tune by a Voice with straw in its throat) have little or nothing to do with "ther drammer" at all. The theatrical streaks are as a whole distinctly below the level of the non-Orphean layers. They reveal a tendency, from which the rest of the material is happily free, that has been adversely commented on by divers other reviewers of divers other issues, and not without justice: a tendency to rather futile inanities which remain devoid of meaning...