Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fundamentally, confidence has been restored and Germany has been reestablished as a going concern on a relatively high level of economic activity. From the outset, moreover, the Dawes Plan realized its primary object by securing the expected reparations payments and transfers to the creditor powers...
...over exports narrowed in the past year, and in September both attained a substantial equilibrium for the first time since 1926. This is partly due to the decline of imports, but exports reached the largest dimensions since 1924. Exports and imports came to an equilibrium in September at a level of approximately 1,100,000,000 marks as compared with...
...their advantage to knock off something from the German debt in return for a promise of more "cash" and less "kind." 3) The four years covered by the Report do not include the present so-called first Standard Year, in which the German Reparations annuity rises to its final level of 2,500,000,000 marks ($595,000,000). Even Agent General Gilbert cannot know from experience how well the burden of the Standard Years will be borne a decade or a generation hence...
Alan Ward and Thelma Paige played well in this homely love scene and all the other actors, especially Jean Adair as Mom, did their perhaps too level best to make the rustic trifle seem intense...
There is no absolute whereby to measure the rise and fall of the level of college journalism, if any. Periodically there arises the question of whither is the undergraduate newspaper going; the medium of judgment chosen by observers is the editorial pages of college papers. The latest criticism, from the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, is an epitome of all that has been said on the subject lately. It asserts that college editors fail to harmonize the tone of their editorial columns with the responsibility that is theirs by virtue of their place as representatives of the college in print. Cynicism, flippancy...