Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...system of concentration and distribution fathered by Mr. Lowell, which time has proved too rigid. With the field of concentration left by the new ruling in the hands of the various departments, as before, there will be less excuse for misfits, and consequently a natural rise in the level of scholarship...
...world's recent (1931-34) annual output. For practical purposes the U. S. had already cornered most of the floating supply. Eager to profit from the corner, speculators helped the U. S. boost the world price to the U. S. price, 71?. Last week when it reached that level, Franklin Roosevelt raised the ante for a second time, put the U. S. price...
...Borah, Wheeler, Adams, King) to the Treasury for a conference. Although the world price for silver stood above the U. S. price, it was decided that for the moment the U. S. would not raise its ante a third time. Promptly the world price flopped back below the U.S. level to wait for the next move...
...Last week it flowered in five successive days of million-share trading or better. Brokers got so excited that they began to call up long-lost customers to spread the cheer. Silver stocks led the market (see p. 17), and the Dow-Jones industrial stock averages hit the highest level of the year. But that was the same level as the other New Deal highs of February 1934 and July 1933 and there, balancing better feeling against poorer figures, the stockmarket hung churning...
...have an aggregate deficit of less than either crew, baseball, or hockey, four prominent Freshmen will circulate a petition toay throughout the College asking that a seven dollar assessment be levied on each student so that these minor sports may be maintained at their present level...