Word: level
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cost its conquerors untold blood and pain. But now, quotations are confused. Direct bargaining between East and West is deadlocked. The conquerors no longer meet in the Allied Control Council: this highest official level was sliced away when Marshal Vasily Sokolovsky walked out last March 20 (TIME, March 29). Until this week, however, they still met in the lower-echelon Kommandatura, charged with the day-to-day business of running the capital. Here, each fortnight, white-haired Soviet General Alexander Kotikov rose to read an hour-long prepared indictment of the Western powers, then comfortably settled his 215 pounds...
Barring quirks of fate or sudden pestilence, Harvard should be a cinch to qualify for the finals, at least at the Varsity level. Neither the Crimson Jayvees nor the Freshmen have proved such strong contenders to date, however, and will have to exert themselves strenuously to stay in the running...
Just as the College, on the academic level, permits students to integrate their life as they will, so on the social level undergraduates are largely thrown clear of any unifying factors. Neither Houses nor classes can claim to create any strong bonds among students. The result of both the academic and social structure in the College is largely the same. The stereotypes already present in an incoming Freshman class become hardened: the scholars become more scholarly; the playboys play more; those who adapt themselves easily join clubs, publications, and other sorts of groups, and those who do not adjust easily...
...Mountbattens. He washed down the black stone idol with water and then with milk, chanted prayers in the oldtime purification ceremony. Irritated, the Mysore government ordered the conservative Archaka to suspend the ceremony and reopen the temple. The Governor General was thus implicitly raised at least to the new level of the Untouchables...
...Belgrade, Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito took another step in his Two-Year Plan, nationalized all private enterprises (above the level of small individual shops) that had not been nationalized already...