Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Everyone can, of course, see what is going on in the stockmarket, at least on the surface. Trading is becoming less active, prices are stabilizing on a lower level than obtained a few months ago. This much every ten-share trader can see. But the inner significance of it, the perception of the economic forces which are responsible for it-these are less obvious...
...Several instances of Mr. Alger's music, which is just a little better than the level of a good score. It took nine song-writers to make this score, and was worth the trouble...
...that both have benefited by being allowed to follow their best interests in different ways. A less obvious but nevertheless true conclusion is that President Lowell's firm belief in the value and pleasure derived from group singing and orchestral playing has once more been justified. The high level of the Instrumental Clubs performances augurs well for a successful vacation trip, which will do much to strengthen its present position and continue the musical tradition which President Lowell has so firmly established...
...personality. It is a step beyond intelligence tests, because problems of adjustment in social environment are problems of more than simple intelligence. In business as in society it is personality that counts rather than a mere high intelligence quotient. A man's associates care less about his intellectual level than they do about his habitual ways of reacting; that is, his personality...
...income and longed to spend it all on evening wraps. They both got into difficulties, gave their husbands opportunity for angry exit. It was one of those high-society plays, written (by Harry Chapman Ford) in the best manner of burlesque and acted even beyond that inexpensive level. There have been one or two worse in this strange, contradictory season...