Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Swampscott came a lank stern Senator, gray-haired, level browed. In 1906-07 he had delved as an explorer into the wastes of Peru. Later he lectured on his discoveries at Yale and Princeton. Once he had been Governor of Connecticut for a few hours (TIME, Jan. 19, POLITICAL NOTES). During the War he had acted as Commandant of the Allies' largest flying school (at Issoudun, France). In the last three months he has made an investigation of Government air bases and air routes. President Coolidge, conscious of all this, shook the Senator's hand warmly, bid Hiram Bingham, Honolulu...
...would be as follows: on a rising tide, the gates to the upper pool would be opened to admit the sea. At flood, the gates would close. No water from the sea would ever enter the lower pool, its gates being opened only when its contents were above sea level. Thus there would be maintained a continuous fall of water over the power dam from the upper to the lower pool, a fall which Engineer Cooper estimates would produce a constant output of between 500,000 and 700,000 h. p. convertible into some 3,268 millions kilowatt hours...
...grave Mustafa. She spoke 'fluently English, French and German, and had mastered the Turkish language, an uncommon achievement for a modern Turkish woman. Moreover, she profoundly believed in the enlightenment of her sex in Turkey. Her object was to bring Turkish women to the social and cultural level of Western women and, en route, to destroy traditions (many of which were not sanctioned by the Koran) which had for centuries bound women to men as slaves. Moreover, she was an heiress...
...feet above our trembling ship," refer them to an article that appeared last week in the Social Politischer Dienst (Berlin). Accurate determination with a special cinema camera had, it was stated, shown that ocean waves in a light breeze were from 2 to 4 yards high (i.e:, above sea level). In a "high sea," waves might rise to 9 yards ; in a "violent gale," to 10 or 12 yards...
...equality is "a manifest absurdity." He calls for a rigorous Eugenics (including infanticide) ; for masculine will power, leadership and brains "sufficient to overshadow any female brain that is placed alongside;" for reversal of pres ent social values that enable the unfit to draw the fit down to their level; for the development of higher faculties in this new, robust man, especially psychic faculties...