Word: level
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...neither were those of Lords Beatty, Allenby and Northcliffe, Sir Henry Wilson and numerous other Britons. Lord Oxford may, unhappily, have been too conscious of his own lack of initiative in 1914 in meeting Sir John's persistent cry for shells, and the subsequent criticism that the latter leveled at him in his book 1914, to be entirely impartial. Whatever his faults, the deceased Field Marshal will ever be remembered as the Commander-in-Chief of those gallant heroes who, in 1914, fought overwhelming odds from Mons to Ypres, perished rather than surrender. Their sacrifice on the fields...
...their Majesties, surrendered to the King the keys of the City and the emblematic pearl sword of privileges. The royal party drove on to Leadenhall Street, where the King alighted from his carriage, smote a stone with a mallet, tested the stone's lie with a spirit-level, declared it "well and truly laid." The occasion was the laying of the foundation stone of a new building to be occupied by Lloyd's,* the world-famed insurance company and underwriters. Before laying the stone, the King said in the course of a speech: "I have been impressed...
Tonight the Freshman class will try its level best to enjoy itself. Nothing short of an earthquake can stop the Jubilee from being very, very festive indeed...
...them. Beyond the limits of the Back Bay, unsupported by its intellectual or financial air, they have bowed at last to a more commercial art. The future of the St. James Theatre will be doubtless intermingled with motion pictures and vaudeville. Boston is fast attain- ing a mid-Western level of dramatic appreciation...
...cycles have been largely postilated on our situation, so long continued, as a debtor country. It may be, therefore, that the past will to a smaller extent than ever before indicate probabilities for the future. Also, the abundance of funds in this, country may lead to a generally lower level of interest rates for the coming years ; and a consequent higher price level for fixed investments, as well as a more stabilized price situation generally...