Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...project already well begun; 2) Rebuild Nanking as a "modern capital," with a "White Hall" for the President of China and "Six Civic Quarters"− governmental, educational, commercial, industrial, residential and celestial−the latter to be the "Purple Hills Quarter" containing the tomb of Saint Sun; 3) Level the walls of Ancient Nanking as the walls of Paris were leveled in the reign of Louis XIV (1638-1715) and lay out on their foundations a "Parisian" circle of boulevards 150 feet wide; 4) Construct throughout China 20,000 miles of railway, 10,000 miles of motor highways, and literally...
...biological station," continued Professor Ames in explanation, "is situated on a large plantation comparatively close to sea level. Within an hour's reach, however, is the range of Trinidad Mountains which rise about 3,000 feet and thus furnish us with the high, cool, and dry habitat where our experimenters can grow plants not common to tropical regions...
Puntarenas. On a sandy bottom 50 feet below sea level off the coast of Costa Rica the U.S. submarine 529 lay prostrate on, its belly. Within, its crew perspired and waited. Divers descended, hoses were screwed to newly installed valves in the submarine's side, cool air invaded the sunken fish. Soon, afterward the divers attached air hoses to the ballast tanks of the vessel; then, cocking a snook through the heavy glass ports at those within, the divers rose to the surface. Great eddies began to surge from the ballast tanks as the water was forced...
...chief handicap is Mexico City's altitude, a mile above sea level, where the thin atmosphere makes it difficult for a plane to rise with enough gasoline for the distance. In 1927, Col. Lindbergh flew in the reverse direction, from Washington to Mexico City, arriving with light tanks...
...individuals as in the Roman Catholic Church; and fratriarchal, or horizontal relationship, as in American democracy at its inception. For modern times, when the patriarchal form of government is constantly losing ground, and when democracy is tending "to reduce all things,--government, art, literature and morals,--to the vulgar level of mediocrity," Mr. Denison proposes what he calls the anepsiarchal system, based on the relationship not of father and sons nor of brother, but of cousins, a system which frankly recognizes the inequalities of men and of the groups which they naturally form, and which combines such groups...