Word: level
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sophisticated idyl of London society. The husband, to eliminate certain of his wife's domestically distasteful tendencies, invites a street walker to a formal dinner party. Certain specially flavored bits of sex discussion have been eliminated in the picture, taming the result down to the censor's level. It is seldom that what is known as a "society drama" makes a deep dent when caught by the camera. Outdoors is more tractable to the director then the shifting suavities of the drawing room. The Fast Set makes no exception. Adolph J. Menjou gives his usual complete and competent...
When on a wide Extent of Level Ground...
...little-heralded developments in the Southwest is the establishment by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway of a double or alternate track from Chicago to Los Angeles, with the exception of a level stretch in Arizona now under construction. The completion of the latter will mark the termination of a 20 year effort by the road, will cover a route of 2,231 miles, and has cost about...
...gentlemen, that those things are untrue. My program is eminently constructive and eminently logical. I believe that Mexico cannot be a great country as long as it has 12,000,000 of human beings who have for several centuries been in perpetual slavery. To lift the moral and economic level of these men I believe to be a work of reconstruction that will benefit not only Mexico but all other countries with which Mexico has relations ; because it is not to be doubted that with the awakening of the spirit of industry among those unfortunate people, the volume of business...
...second half we find the University's offensive power decreasing to a new low level with a total of 44 yards gained in 28 rushes, or an average of 15 yards per play, as compared with two yards per play in the first half. Of these plays 13 were forward passes, seven of which were incomplete, three intercepted, two caught for first downs, and one caught without gain of distance...