Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drop in prices to the pre-war level is to be expected during the next ten years, in the opinion of the University Committee on Economic Research, said Professor C. J. Bullock, chairman of the committee, speaking last night at the first session of a national conference of subscribers to the Harvard Economic Service, held at the Harvard Club of Boston...
...plausible inference that prices must return to a pre-war normal has frequently been drawn from the fact that prices have reverted to their former level after previous periods of currency inflation in the early and middle nineteenth century. The Harvard Committee, however, cannot accept this conclusion, for it cannot find that the governing conditions exist today which brought about lower price levels in the past...
Must Accept Present Price Level...
...York as it is in Boston, Chicago, or San Francisco. What happened yesterday at the Polo Grounds has had its parallel in occasional demonstrations in the Harvard Stadium against the home team. If manners make the man, our crowds have still much to learn. In the last analysis the level of sportsmanship depends as much upon the temper and ideals of the sporting public as it does upon the standards of the players themselves, whether professionals or amateurs. What wonder that the pages of professional baseball are sometimes marred by scandals, when the crowds that throng the grandstands...
Such in the startling theory of Dr. Getsinger, for thirty five years Egyptoloaist and research worker. First, he deduces from the marks of wave erosion which he finds at a common level on all the pyramids, that the Nile valley was for thousands of years under the sea. At this name time, he places the vanishing of the "lost kingdom of Atlantic". Years later Cheopa had the pyramids finished with smooth stone,--a publicity stunt still good after four thousand years. But nevertheless he was really only an interloper. Are not the "three stories" of Noah's Ark duplicated...