Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ideal environment for the culturally rounded growth of the individual is the small group, and the most natural union of members is not that of men on the same level, as in the present division in classes, but of undergraduates at varying stages of development...
...Rood took the new V-2 down to 220 feet. To get there it took three different plunges-first to a depth of 50 feet, then a shifting of ballast, a plunge to 110 feet, another ballast-adjustment, and then a final plunge to 220 feet, at which level the underwater boat traveled successfully some seven miles. This test run constituted a record for official submarine navigation and was accounted as a feather in the V-2's periscope...
...What the temperamental actress is quite likely to think her due and privilege often fills the level-headed business woman with horror. I am speaking now of such things as the early hour of arrival at the studio in the morning, working evenings and holidays, to say nothing of having to appear before the camera in a darkened, shut in studio when all the sunshine of California bids me come out and play. Then, too, the extravagance of the actress, when it comes to scenery and costumes, often shocks the business woman...
...blackness. As hours passed, this fissure sucked in the adjacent ground for 300 feet around, gaping out into the dry, sandy riverbed. Out of the bottom darkness, pale greenish waters later welled up and there was the white cow's body floating upon them, 100 feet below ground level. Sulphur fumes arose...
...would in all probability stimulate the student to the degree of effort demanded by the faculty. Such mechanical rules have proven successful before in driving the low-ranking undergraduate to the Pierian spring. For success over and above the minimum necessary to place a composition course on the standard level, an able instructor is prerequisite. Such a teacher would soon discover which of his pupils sought to shade the indispensable C close to its lower margin. For these men, administrative rigors of quantity and time are available...