Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...maintain at least a medium individual farm income level was the purpose of the Cotton Acreage Reduction Program, launched in 1933 and continued last year. The landowner pledged himself "insofar as possible, [to] maintain on this farm the number of tenants and other employes," which he had maintained in the past. He was also supposed to pass along pro rata the share croppers' share of the reduction benefit payments...
...London home. He then took his secretary into the house to live with him, fled to Montreal on the S.S. Montrose when his late wife's friends infected Scotland Yard with their suspicions. The only elements in the Crippen case which might possibly raise it above the low level of other murders, were: 1) in flight the secretary wore boy's clothes; 2) when detectives on the faster Laurentic overtook the Montrose, wireless was used for the first time to apprehend a fugitive criminal. Taken back to England, the bald, walrus-mustached, unattractive little uxoricide was hanged...
...risen to peak brilliance. At that time its magnitude was one and a half, a half million times brighter than was normal. This rise is a much slower one than takes place in the usual Nova. It began its normal decline, but stopped falling and held a fairly steady level of about two and a half magnitudes...
...forget the hard battle civilization has waged to include more than the so-called fundamentals and the imperative need for the most inclusive kind of education possible to meet the increasing complexities of life. In the last analysis, higher education and society itself cannot maintain themselves at the present level, unless provision is made for the future by re-establishing the public schools to their former position. The Federal government, under the drive of depression, has obviated many of the so-called state's rights. It can and should divert money from building an air force "second to none...
...that a rib had snapped in the framework, that No.1 gas cell near the fin had ripped open. Steady as a stone, Commander Wiley ordered gas valved from the forward cells, all water ballast and emergency fuel aft dumped, the engines slowed down, in a vain attempt to level the ship off. The altimeter registered 4,600 ft. before the Macon faltered in its helpless ascent, began to fall tail first. Pike-plain to all aboard was the fact that the Navy's last dirigible was rapidly going to pieces in midair. No. 2 gas cell popped open, then...