Word: level
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attacks upon towns, gases and vapors are not very effective (except, of course, that they would cause indescribable panic) for the simple reason that rooms above the ground, level are fairly complete anti-gas chambers, provided that no fires are lit to draw air into them. The destructive capacity of a gas shell or bomb is insignificant. It will be high explosives, which cause houses to crash, that will apparently supply the chief danger to the cities and towns in the next war. Moreover, to get an effective concentration of gas in cities behind the firing lines, an enormous concentration...
...lively but level-headed passage of verbal arms between Premier Mussolini and Senator Luigi Albertini, owner of the Milanese Corriere Della Sera, occurred in the Senate. Senator Albertini, in a long attack on the Mussolini Cabinet, indicated by example how the Government suppressed news of a demonstration unfavorable to itself...
...terminals, smaller beacons every 25 miles and emergency landing lights every three miles. The French are following in our footsteps by inaugurating night flying and will have one beacon of even greater candlepower. This will be located at Mont St. Afrique near Dijon, 2,000 feet above sea level, operated at 8,000 volts with a candlepower of one billion-some 20 times .more than the most powerful marine lighthouse...
...strengthens the language until that time arrives when its meaning has been so twisted and broadened that it becomes no longer respectable. Either it will escape this calamity and become a real word, or like the term "flapper", which originally was an apt expression, it will sink to the level of drab profanity...
...about 100 by 50 feet. It will be built under the west side of the dormitory, which so far has been reserved for a future addition. It will occupy the basement and the first floor. It will have a running track in the balcony which will be on a level with the ground. Entrances will lead directly on to the balcony, and thence by spiral staircases in the corners to the main floor of the gymnasium. The room will be large enough for basketball and also for setting up drill for a class...