Word: level
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...higher rate of interest. The continuing cost of an increase in interest rates on such a volume of refunding would be very large. The Government, like every other person in the United States, would also have to conduct its business at greatly increased expense, due to the higher price level generally which would inevitably follow the credit expansion and decreased production brought on by the bonus law. Soon the disturbance to business by this and other factors would reduce the income of the people and thus the Government's revenue, so that any estimated surplus would no longer exist...
...every level of behavior, the psychological, the sensory-motor and the higher psychical, he is acquiring both healthful and unhealthful habits of activity. Though he may not learn to read in the pre-school years, he is mastering the alphabet of life. So potent are these fundamental lessons that this period easily becomes the soil of perversion, inefficiency and distorted or curtailed development. Psychoanalysis reveals significant instances in which the unfortunate experiences in the first years of life were competent to produce developmental disharmonies resulting in abnormal adult behavior...
...earlier months. Employment is practically complete, wages in many lines are very high, and the public is buying goods in generous quantities. The Federal Reserve Board's index of department store sales established a new high record during last October, which was 6% over the level reached the previous month. Sales of woolens have been particularly large; with cotton and silks dragging considerably behind. In anticipation of the Christmas trade, stores began to stock up in mid-autumn; the stocks in department stores last October for the third successive month showed an increase, and on October 31, stood...
...spoiled child than an intelligent man. Moreover, his criticism of the committee's failure to name the defending doubles team a long time in advance is not altogether warranted. In citing past defeats and emphasizing the necessity of planning a campaign a long way ahead Tilden descends to the level of so many sports where winning is the primary object and a pleasant hour or so of recreation a minor detail. The champion is inconsistent in this in that once on the court he does decidedly play for the joy of the game. After all it would be no great...
...footsteps of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which has for some time given concerts at a nominal price for school children. There is far more truth than poetry in Plato's dictum that children should be stamped with good taste as soon as possible. Instead of coming down to the level of the audience with a rendition of "Barney Google," the Glee Club will put in practise the theory of educating the audience up to its level. If moving picture producers, radio story-tellers, and the raft of authors of children's books would only do the same, how many "bromides...