Word: level
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ford Motor Co. He was handpicked by Wall Street Investment Banker Paul V. Shields, who took over as Curtiss-Wright's chairman and chief executive officer last April. Shields wanted a man who could cut costs at Curtiss-Wright and lift its sales volume to a profitable level with an additional line of non-aviation products...
...stood me on my right wing," Pilot Humphrey reported later. "I fought to level off. Just then the Navy plane made a chandelle, driving around back of me. It came up behind...
Since boys are often slower than girls in learning to talk as well as to write, Dr. Greene believes that possibly "we expect too much of boys ... in their early years. Our expectations that they should attain the same level of speech performance as girls of like age, when they have not attained the same level of nervous and muscular maturation, may often result in feelings of inadequacy and insecurity, and cause [speech disorders...
...Perhaps," Dr. Greene suggests, "if parents and teachers were to expect less of boys than of girls in the way of speech development at any given age level, there would be fewer male speech sufferers at later stages." The importance of the early years is shown by the fact that 90% of stutterers began stuttering...
...about this year's summer school at Harvard. The schoolmarms in gingham were there. Young men in slacks lounged in gate ways; bookworms burrowed in the Widener stacks. It seemed as if only the stu dents in an advanced seminar called "Science and General Education at the College Level" had anything new to talk about. Their subject: a new professor...