Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contemporary Fred Sturdy, owe their success less to the New Haven climate than to the most famed of all the vaulters who preceded them, Alfred Carlton Gilbert, Olympic champion in 1908. Gilbert's study of pole-vaulting over 30 years has raised the sport to the level of a precise and dangerous science...
Strong gusts from the bonus and inflationary groups in the House have apparently sent the presidential weathervane spinning to the left. Roosevelt hinted in yesterday's press conference that the price level is not yet sufficiently "high," the obvious implication being that more currency tinkering is being considered. Yet a few days ago Richberg assured a Boston audience "that there will be no inflation while Franklin D. Roosevelt is President." At the time the less gullible took this statement with a grain of salt, realizing that the Treasury wanted to float an extensive new bond issue. They further wondered...
...concluding chapter he suggests three ways for America to destroy this threatening ogre. First, he favors the elimination of the Imposture of modernistic art. Second, he would give art students more thorough technical discipline, and lastly, he would educate the public to a sufficient level that it could "recognize and respond to a true creative...
That certain stage: "When the volume of industrial production, now in the 80's [Federal Reserve index], reaches 100 and works above this level for several months...
...book (The Answering Glory) as "a shout of joy," U. S. readers with an eye for good writing were beginning to watch Author Hutchinson closely, called him far & away better than his name-fellow, Arthur Stuart Menteth Hutchinson (If Winter Comes). After reading his second, The Unforgotten Prisoner, even level-headed critics called him better than Galsworthy. But last week, after reading his third, Author Hutchinson's praisers modified their mounting applause, called him better than the late William J. Locke. Unless he changes his direction, he will soon be called better than Baroness Orczy. A novelist of more...