Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...current situation remained static during the week. The average level of industrial stocks scarcely budged over the previous week's. Rails made a trifle better showing. Investors seemed marking time for a clearer prognosis of conditions...
...stock mar- ket heavings of recent weeks confirms the diagnosis that they marked in the main a subsidence of speculative investments. These latter were certainly supported by the ease and plenitude of money which has prevailed for so long a period. Last week the stock waves approached a level. Business throughout the country during the week was fairly stable. To intimate that prices may decline slightly during the coming months may seem uncouth and previous. The vivifying strength of spring trade has not yet made itself felt appreciably. Motor car and steel makers are under quantity production, although the former...
...Four steel trusses, each of 156 tons and so the world's largest, were fastened into the skeleton of the new Level Club (Masonic) in Manhattan last week by 8,000 rivets each. They will dome an auditorium, support above nine stories of hotel bedrooms. Engineers, architects and builders studied their placement...
Unfortunately for this fictional crusade, it does not escape the standardizing influence of the type of mystery story. In the person of Moria Devens, daughter of the murdered contractor, the inevitable love theme enters to bring the story down to the normal level. By means of this amorous tie, Mr. Train holds his narrative within the bounds which has been plotted out by a host of novelists before...
...sometimes dannish journals, and they have nursed many a notable writer. But the scale, frequency, and resources of such ventures are much greater here. If the contributors, like the managers, are, in the case of the Advocate, of undergraduate standing (and even if they are not), then the level of the writing, like that of the editing, is noticeably high. This impression becomes stronger on reading the "Report of the Student Council of Education," which fills more than one-third of the issue. It would be most improper for a visitor to discuss this document; but he may, without vain...