Word: levelation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kilb's defenders were quick with an explanation: the company had insisted on loaning Kilb the cars to make sure that he would not inconvenience Adenauer by arriving late at top-level government appointments. The fact that Kilb might be in a position to influence the Bonn government's plans for restricting the size of trailer trucks-a subject of considerable interest to Daimler-Benz, as one of West Germany's major manufacturers of trucks-had nothing to do with the case, they said...
...attack dampened optimism about the growing air and sea supply line to Quemoy. Success in resupplying the artillery-blockaded island and the promise of bigger supply efforts had prompted American officials to predict yesterday that Quemoy could hold out at the present level of supply runs...
...section of Conrad the Novelist deals with the three political novels: Nostromo, The Secret Agent, and Under Western Eyes. It is not, I think, an impressive as the first two hundred pages; there are excellent passages, particularly in the Nostromo chapter, but Guerard does not always reach the high level he maintains in treating the other novels...
Idler's best efforts were its two 1951-52 productions: Ibsen's A Doll's House and Clare Booth Luce's The Women. But Idler was destined to inhabit the level of mediocrity: it rarely produced a poor show, but it never produced a really excellent...
However, Mr. Whiteside observed, there have been great changes in American society since then, making such a turn against precedents desirable. Also, the fourteenth amendment now makes the Bill of Rights applicable on the state level. In 1954, in the Brown vs. Topeka School Board case, the Court ruled that segregation "materially impedes education" and in order to belie its precedent legislation gave testimony from sociologists which backed the Court's decision...