Word: level
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Continue to pay janitors' salaries to college professors and you must be prepared to expect your children to receive teaching upon a level which will fit them to be janitors...
...square chin is softened by the fact that it tops a neck like that of a warbling thrush or bullfrog. But the mustache is close-clipped, businesslike, and the hard, unflickering hazel eyes keep their level aim behind efficient, rimless glasses. Appropriately L'Americain is of mixed blood, with a faint ancestral dash of German...
...reverse their strategy of last Spring limiting tariff fighting only to the Farm Lowlands. They consented to give the regular Republicans battle all along the tariff line, with a view to beating down with their rifle butts all industrial rates that dared pop their heads above the present trench level...
...myself in 1906 again, driving Paddy from store to store, doing my level best to sell Cheese. The heartbreaks and disappointments all came back and were just as real as if they were just happening. Over again I ate my ten cent breakfast of coffee and rolls, and quietly slipped one into my pocket for lunch. I remembered the summer underwear and low shoes that I wore during that cold winter of 1907 ... the past when the Kraft Company was small and everybody called everybody else by his first name-even the stenographers...
...public knew there were far greater supplies of credit available in the country than they would ever need, and that the high discount rates which the Federal Reserve has maintained in effort to check speculation have largely been a "false front". Related to this situation is the relatively low level which call money has kept during the current crisis--a development most unusual in an uneasy market. Connected with these two characteristics is the recent development of "extra-banking" sources of funds, the "loans for others" that have bulked so largely in the call-market...