Word: level
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last Mrs. Wilson was driven to the railway station, there to entrain for Vienna. Upon the station wall a brooding portrait is cut in high relief. The long ascetic face, the level academic brow, the expression care-worn but purposeful, are familiar to Mrs. Wilson. Pausing for a moment she commended the likeness...
...Lamont Report," as it was promptly christened, sped over humming rails from Mexico City to Manhattan last week. Conclusion: 1) That Mexican commerce has returned to normal in every Mexican state but one. 2) That in the city of Guadalajara, famed Roman Catholic stronghold, commerce has regained a level of about 60% of normal...
...English ideal with the thoroughness of the German ideal; that is, American universities which adopt the tutorial system must not try to use the English tutors with the idea of securing the effectiveness of the German seminar The result of this would be to raise the general level of the educational standard but to put the exceptional man at a disadvantage...
...already broken, twisted, blasted, Miami was rewrecked. The waters of rivers were forced back to an unprecedentedly low level, then urged headlong overwhelmingly forward to founder grounded vessels. Fort Lauderdale, Pompano,* Hialea, Dania, Homestead, Coral Gables, Hallandale, Floranada, Ojus-all were devastated...
Considerable difficulty was encountered in building the basement and foundation, for these parts of the building are below the level of the Charles, and required steady pumping for weeks while the cellars were waterproofed and equipped with ejector pits to dispose of the sewerage. The building is connected with the other three Freshman dormitories by an underground tunnel, which will not be used by the students, but which serves as a service entrance for the hall "goodies" whose headquarters are three blocks away, is the basement of Smith...