Word: level
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trip from the Canyon to Cody, on the return to Black Hills, the President made in an automobile, proceeding along the famed Cody road. The picayune limousine in which he sat crawled up edges of huge and jagged mountains, reached finally the height of 9,000 feet above sea level. Never before, President Coolidge stated, had he climbed so high...
...Constantinople, a British Academy group, led by Stanley Casson, Oxford (New College) don, dug down 25 feet to the original arena level of the Byzantine Hippodrome, begun in the 2nd Century A. D. and completed in 330 by Constantine the Great. They were rewarded by Byzantine ceramics, early Turkish faience and discovery of the fact that the "spina" of ancient hippodromes was not always a wall running down the centre of the arena. In Constantino's hippodrome, at least, the "spina" was replaced by a wall of separated monuments. Among these were a 50-foot Egyptian obelisk originally 94 feet...
Clicking smoothly over groomed lawns, globes of lignum vitae or other dark and ponderous fibre, rolled down into India, over the Himalayas, through the hot, level borders of Persia onto the deck of a Spanish boat, over the blue waving turf of the Mediterranean, through Spain to England. Here, half the world away from China, yokels at twilight gathered on a sward, awninged by oak trees, bordered by oak-beamed cottages, breathed hard and bent over to twirl great wooden spheres-bowls, they called them in England...
...Italy, digging went forward as never before. Rome needs a subway. The tracks will run about on the level of the city of the Caesars. Archaeologists will watch over the shoulders of blasters, pickers and sandhogs to recover relics, having authority to order deviation from the engineers' surveys to preserve buried buildings, whose locations are first carefully mapped...
Clarence Walker Barren's Wall Street Journal, less brash in such business & financial matters than the Chicago paper, noted last week: "American banks are finding it profitable to place surplus funds in London, owing to higher level of money rates there, and such transfers of dollars into sterling have been a leading cause of firmness in the sterling rate this week. , Some American funds are also being placed in Germany, to take advantage of higher rates prevailing in Berlin...