Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...commenting and fault-finding will be the best result of the referendum. It is necessary to have at least glanced over the Plan in order to comment upon it; and this requires more than ordinary exertion. And no one is more essential to this American democracy than the critical level-headed skeptic...
...describing to Harvard professors how most accurately to measure the fourth dimension, was discovered by a New York reporter to be working as a clerk in the metropolis for $23 a week. This was proof sufficient for an eager penman, who probably sailed over the college course on a level C, that precocity is a flash in the pan, brilliant but momentary...
...Asia Minor. Their faces are usually pinched with cold and hunger; in many of the student countries I have found tuberculosis prevalent. In Russia alone last summer there were more than forty thousand students and professors lacking warm clothes or sufficient food to keep them, above the starvation level. What must be their condition today in the middle of a bitter Russian winter...
...shed their lion's raiment. In connection with the finishing of the Cathedral a drive for $15,000,000 was started by a national committee, of which Franklin D. Roosevelt is the acting head. Money will not be spent while building prices are at their present sky-high level. In any case, about 15 years will be required to complete the building. Certain features of the finished Cathedral will be unique. The interior of the proposed nave, as designed by Architect Ralph Cram, will have columns 100 feet high-the tallest single columns in existence...
...just what difference an affirmative or negative decision can make in our faith. Is it not possible for one to be a good Christian without regard for whether one believes in the trimmings of Christianity that so attract the savage, or whether one consigns the miracles to the level of Greek mythology...