Word: level
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annual exposition of the Salons of America opened at the Anderson Galleries, Manhattan. Among the works that rise above the level of mediocrity, Charles Burchfield's Scrapped Locomotives invites a second glance. It is an artistic treatment of a mass of bent and broken pieces of steel- a subject that has not as yet become hackneyed. Others that stand out are the lithograph, Mother with Child, by 17-year-old Pamela Bianco (TIME, March 24), an expressive piece; the Lady in Yellow, by Leo Katz, a classic portrait of Mme. Archipenko clad in voluminous drapery; a barnyard scene...
...statesmen have not recognized the truth of this before, and spared their dignities and their heads by a well-earned distribution of raiment. The American has had his "red-cost", the Chinaman his Manchu queue, the English Cavalier his ground-heard the Frenchman his culottes Descending from the national level even the "Harvard hat" has been its own little storm, center of parental wrath...
...find an impossibility, then by common sense still remaining to us we shall be able to adjust conditions. "And I beg of every nation concerned to follow the line we have taken, to take the whole report, to put it heartily into operation and to do its level best to carry out the obligations imposed by it and then to trust to the sense of justice of the world to see that right is done in the end." House of Commons. The Conservative Party's motion (TIME, May 12) condemning the abolition of the McKenna duties was defeated...
...many persons were overcome on account of the high concentration of CO attendant upon auto congestion in a streetcar strike. Last Summer, Dr. Yandell Henderson, Professor of Applied Physiology at Yale University, suggested as a partial solution that automobile exhausts be extended from the horizontal position at the level of the axle to a vertical one discharging like a chimney at the height of seven or eight feet. He conducted extensive experiments on Fifth Avenue, New York, and other motor-congested highways, proved that CO, even when not so dense as to cause prostration, affects people who inhale it adversely...
Lifted to the level of the rime-stung stars...