Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obvious, Author Warner ever so softly annihilates Christian idiocies. Her weapons are neither rapiers nor bludgeons. They are satin sofa-pillows which she tosses laughingly but with accuracy. Breaking when they land, her missiles leave the recipient white and ridiculous with feathers. In prose as easygoing, as smooth and level as a buzzard's flight, she matches her astute intelligence with a fancy as varied as it is engaging...
...windows. The ceiling of the Great Hall is an acquired masterpiece of French workmanship, a dark, heavily-beamed, sixteenth century ceiling from Dijon. The whole of the ceiling is richly carved. A small second-floor balcony and a number of windows on the west side, at an eye's level above a concealed passage, permit a close inspection of the whole. In the west passage leading to the Great Hall a bust of Professor Charles Eliot Norton has been placed in a niche, the gift of his pupil, Dr. James Loeb...
...employment [in the U. S.]." Mr. Baldwin explained that the Bureau of Labor Statistics computes monthly "an unemployment index which shows the trend of employment, that is, whether the number employed is increasing or decreasing." The latest (April) report of this nature by the Department of Labor declares: "The level of employment in April, 1927 was 2.4% lower than in April, 1926, and pay roll totals were .6% lower...
This morning the new plant of the Harvard Business School becomes officially a part of Harvard. Those who are now used to the attractive group of buildings rising, where once the level waste of Allston bank abused the eye, may not consider the exercises of the morning as more than reiterative. For already has this settlement across the Charles become an intimate appendage of the older Harvard...
...least one can see why it happened where it did. Even those who hold the crudest ideas of divine justice can scarcely conceive it as operating only up to a certain contour line of elevation. It seems so natural for water to run down hill and to seek its level that those who look for manifestations of the power of God only in the wholly inexplicable are hesitant to include this cataclysmic but rather natural event in the category of 'acts of God.' The conception of a God who acts through the orderly operation of laws rather than...