Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fess, Republicans of Ohio, were the only outspoken defenders of Mr. Daugherty, although Senator Bruce, Democrat of Maryland, attempted to restrain the ardor of the Democrats and radicals who cried loudest for the investigation. Mr. Fess exclaimed: "It strikes me that the Senate is reaching rather a low level. I hope this is not a school of scandal...
...that it was not the custom, "to wear a pleasing countenance; for dancing is certainly supposed to be an enjoyment. But the somber faces of some might lead to the belief that it were a solemn duty being performed." This, of course, is not the case. And while these level-headed gentlemen will by their enforced patronage give balance and dignity to the occasion, they will not utterly confound the mirthfully inclined for all their immitigable feature and respectable frames...
Professor R. A. Daly '93 in speaking of the "Ocean" showed startling figures dealing with the pressure it exerts upon itself. "If the ocean were not compressible," he says, "sea level would be 200 feet higher than it is now. It is to this fact, than the ocean can sit upon itself, so to speak, that we owe our present safety...
...stupidity of his class-mate. The best men are permitted and assisted to reach their greatest possible development; the less capable are allowed to enjoy several years of agreeable companionship and congenial study without the continual harassing of hour examinations, lectures, tests and what not. The individual seeks his level...
...second time to beat Lecointe. He failed-reaching the modest elevation of 34,983 feet. His altimeter recorded 41,000 feet but the altimeter is not an absolute instrument to show height. It measures how much lighter the air is at heights than it is at ground level. On a cold day the air is heavier at ground level, hence the error. And it certainly was cold the day of the flight-the thermometer failed at 70° below zero Fahrenheit, at some 30,000 feet. Macready went still higher and into still colder air; he needed his five suits...