Word: level
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bravest of all battle flags, the one that reads Vol. 1. Issue 1. Early readers who had just descended from their mustache cups to their poached eggs that January morning in '73 learned in the next eleven lines of clipped prose that the Kirkland Fellowship fund had reached the level...
...market which the French propose for the franc will inevitably affect the pound adversly. If large amounts of pounds flow through Paris, the British government feels that it will also have to devalue, making foreign commodities more expensive at a time when exports are beginning to climb to a level high enough to cover imports...
...lawn and the sound of neighbors' voices coming clear through the summer air. He consulted an architect; together, they found just the place for it. It would be inconspicuously tucked away behind the pillars of the White House's south portico, at the second-floor level. The plans were drawn, the money ($15,000) set aside from White House maintenance funds. Then the storm broke...
...Plan operate in the manner in which it was intended; only thus can Harvard "combine the variety of educational offerings possible only in a university with many of the social advantages of a small college." If the University were to keep on at its jam-packed 12,000 man level, the new lecture halls, dormitories, and laboratories that would soon be needed would involve immense capital expenditures. And all the various faculties would have to be enlarged, teaching methods in some of the graduate schools might even have to be revised. So a return to the size for which...
...newly renovated cellar club called the Blue Note (formerly Lipp's Lower Level), the big names were a couple of refugees from Manhattan. New York's Swing Street (52nd) and Greenwich Village were in the doldrums: many of the honky-tonk joints there were billing shows like Burlesquer Lois De Fee's "Rumba A-peel." Muggsy Spanier, who looks like a waterfront Noel Coward, and Trombonist Miff Mole, who looks like a middle-aged dentist, were playing music that had a lot more drive to it than it had had at Nick's in the Village...