Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Emanuele, or Benito Mussolini, found this unbecoming to the dignity of the House of Savoy (TIME, Nov. 25). Hence the compromise, the one-kneed genuflection. His Holiness did not leave Their Majesties kneeling long. Quickly he motioned them to their feet, led them to two armchairs placed on a level with and on either side of his "Little Throne,"* which was under a velvet canopy...
...associates in the Laboratory of Educational Psychology on the processes and mechanisms of reading. Defects in reading may result form wrong habits established in early years and may prevent the attainment of normal speed in reading throughout life. Slow reading is a tremendous handicap in study at every level. The work already done in this subject at the Graduate School of Education promises to lay bare the causes of difficulty in reading and provide meant for at least a partial correction...
...This is not a law, it is an infamy," said Dr. Curtius in level, fervent tones. "It is an attack on the authority of the state. You would force us, Mein Herr," turning upon Dr. Hugenberg, "to carry on foreign policy as though we were the prisoners at a criminal trial. . . . We must pay no more reparations? We must reject the Young Plan? What positive proposition do you have to make for other political measures...
...Museum by Messrs. Reynolds, Francis & Rohnstock in connection with the lectures on stained glass which are being given by Professor Marcel Aubert, is on exhibition in Gallery IV, and in order that the students may more conveniently see the construction, it has been placed at the eye level...
...Snow covered the rear grounds of the White House one morning last week. Out through the falling flakes ran President Hoover. Behind him trotted Secretaries Wilbur and Hyde, Solicitor-General Hughes, Farm Board Chairman Legge, six others. When they came to their level, shrub-guarded playground behind the White House, they briskly began passing their 8-lb. medicine ball back and forth. They kept it up for a half-hour, then walked back to the White House to have their morning coffee indoors instead of out for the first time this year. Thus came Winter to Washington...