Word: level
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Today, however, it is on a higher level than that of any other country in the world." Those who supposed that Architect Cram, when he spoke of "the higher level," was referring to the silver splinters of sky scrapers in Manhattan and elsewhere, were soon disabused. Architect Cram, apostle of the gothic, has only an academic interest in these astonishing and often beautiful towers. He disapproved of them on principle but said that he "would like to try to build one." Himself a great builder of churches, he referred to U. S. religious monuments...
...name of the common law judges of Great Britain and the popular prejudice of the times against them, it is small wonder that the American attitude of regarding the unrestrained common law judge as a partisan monster should be formulated. The successive steps which have relegated him to the level of the practitioners in his court are only logical ones for a nation desiring personal liberty above all things...
...magnitude of the political catastrophe resulting from the standardization of the press may be overdrawn, there is another more optimistic view of the situation. The general level of a universal standard for the national press would be kept higher by pressure of public opinion than the plane where much local journalism stands today. It is inconceivable that the tabloid sensationalism that washes down so many breakfasts now, or the pink and purple extravaganzas of Mr. Hearst should ever set the style for a nationwide press such as Mr. Villard imagines. If amalgamation will gloss over with a coat of standardized...
...most often recommended to people who have never read Hardy; The Return of the Native has a hard power that, in some opinions, places it above Jude the Obscure. A Pair of Blue Eyes, The Mayor of Casterbridge, both fine novels, are not quite up to the level of Hardy's greatest work...
...hockey game which failed to rise above the level of informal play the University Seconds outplayed the inexperienced Andover sextet yesterday afternoon and left the ice with a 2 to 1 verdict...