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Word: level (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sinking Prices. In the drop, some bears unquestionably made a quick neat profit-since the "short interest" was already at its peak (TIME, May 30). As the market opened this week, it dropped again. A test was at hand of the mystic level of 163.12, the low mark made in the 1946 crash, which all subsequent drops had failed to penetrate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: Testing the Floor | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...Institute is to train a limited number of qualified students on a graduate level in Middle east Studies with particular emphasis on the political, social, and economic aspects of the modern and contemporary periods...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Near East Study Group Set Up at Dropsie College | 6/7/1949 | See Source »

...Maximum. The different planes from which West and East looked down on Germany became more evident as the week wore on. The courtesy wilted steadily. By Thursday night the talks had reached the level of restrained acerbity. The three Western powers were asking Russia to quit stalling and tell precisely what it wanted out of the conference that it had requested as a condition for lifting the Berlin blockade. Vishinsky was snapping back that no one could "impose" on him any topics of discussion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: The Fading Smile | 6/6/1949 | See Source »

Under this system, a candidate for a faculty position must be approved by his department before his application ever reaches the Yale Corporation level...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: Stringent Loyalty Checks at Yale Keep Teachers Tense | 6/4/1949 | See Source »

...pitching area is about nine feet long--three and a half feet of fairly level payment followed by a gradual rise for five and a half feet, at the end of which is a foot-high ledge. Pennies can be ricocheted off this ledge or rolled up to it in any manner. "Leaners" are particularly desirable, although there is always the chance that they'll be caromed away from the ledge by somebody else's toss...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: They're Off and Rolling in Lowell's Courtyard! | 6/4/1949 | See Source »

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