Word: level
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made up the caravan which worked its way from one supply camp to another and finally had to dig in, itself. A camp rapidly grew up and the yaks and porters were left there while a few of the best porters continued on to the 22,000 foot level. Curiously enough, one of the porters who reached the high level carrying a 40-pound burden the same as the men. Only six of the entire native force were able to climb up from the next stage, at the 24,000 foot level. When finally only the last step remained...
...appointment brings into the faculty a man deeply interested in the "athletics for all" policy, and with him it places this policy on a level of academic equality with the intellectual concerns of the University. At once it fills out the athletic policy and sets it on a broad foundation...
...housetops nor yet to whistle in the dark. No "boom" was on, but pessimism was conspicuously dormant. The measure of distribution-car loadings- stayed high. The measures of demand and production-shipments and orders-were in good volume. The measures of volume-and-price -bank clearings-kept their level. Through the lens that is Wall Street, quickened activity could be observed in several industries that have drowsed of late-notably oil, copper, sugar, textiles...
...went. His supercharger (a device for furnishing the mixing-chamber with sea-level conditions) went out of commission at 25,000 feet. Still he climbed. At 35,900 feet his engine balked. He wheeled and began to slide down to Dayton. He had failed by 3,586 feet to break the record of M. Callise, but set a new U. S. record. He said...
...which came to a head in America, England, Japan and all countries with a steady currency in 1920 and 1921. Prices do not fall as they should in order to correspond to the purchasing power of the consumers and to start a new economic development on a lower price level. Much of the credit recently granted as working capital is still misused to sustain the high prices. Too much of the small amount of available working capital has been invested in very old or very new plants and has become worthless. But the cleaning up process, the exclusion of weak...