Word: level
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago the President telephoned and asked the health of General Charles G. Dawes. At luncheon in the Drake Hotel he spoke to the Commercial Club saying: "We cannot hope indefinitely to maintain our country as a specially favored community, an isle of contentment lifted above the general level of the average standards of humanity." After luncheon the President attended ceremonies commemorating the 250th anniversary of the day when Pére Marquette landed at Chicago. Then he proceeded to the stockyards, saw herds of blooded stock and crowds of enthusiastic people. At dinner in the evening, he spoke at Stock...
...University Dining Halls should have to serve worse food than the Harvard Square restaurants which charge but little more and must make a profit. Nevertheless, the quality of the food in the Freshman Halls two years ago, and at Memorial last year was decidedly below the level of the better restaurants on the Square...
General John J. Pershing, U. S. A., retired, will be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary for a day. That day, Dec. 9, will be spent 11,600 feet above sea level, at the battlefield of Ayacucho, Peru. He will represent the U. S. at the official centenary of that battle which freed South America of Spanish dominion...
Tonight's program promises heated argument well above the level of the monthly meeting of the Ladies' Missionary Society. Mr. Frederick J. Libby, possibly the most ardent, and assuredly the best known, pacifist of the United States will expound his views. He is relentless in his opposition to the preparedness propaganda of the Junkers who argue...
Simon Called Peter. The church, as anyone will recall who read Robert Keable's novel, bears the brunt of the attack. A British Army chaplain does his level best to be a good fellow and finds that being a good fellow and remaining on the level best make an awkward combination...