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Word: leveler (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bright red. hollow cube of steel as big as an eight-roomed house. After riveters build its steel walls higher, diggers working under compressed air in the lower chamber of the caisson will excavate enough mud to permit the base to settle down 100 ft. below water level. From that point they will dig sideways toward New Jersey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Queensway | 7/30/1934 | See Source »

Highest place in the world is the summit of Mt. Everest, 29,140 ft. above sea level. If any man has set foot on that white pinnacle of the Himalayas none has returned to tell the tale. Up to last week 13 persons were known to have perished in 13 years of trying. Last week the world heard of a 14th victim when three Indian porters arrived in Darjeeling with the story of one man's lone assault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: All-Highest | 7/30/1934 | See Source »

...fell in love. All went swimmingly until the girl's father decided that Willoughby was no catch, did his level best to break up the affair. Willoughby dissipated his feelings, acquired a heartless mistress, got into debt, lived in squalor. When his true love finally came back to him both had much to forgive. But at last they were married, went to live on the ancestral farm Willoughby had inherited. For a few years they were happy; then Willoughby's blood began to tell. He grew more and more like his old uncle, sank deeper and deeper into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hearty Misadventures | 7/30/1934 | See Source »

...Inflationist, who likes to he photographed in tattered overalls to publicize the debtor's plight, considered it bad enough to have President Roosevelt temporarily peg the dollar at 59.06¢ last January but to have Governor Harrison attempt to hammer it down permanently on gold at that level was more than he could stand. To Governor Harrison at Basle he dispatched a sizzling 1,500-word cablegram at 10¢ per word (at his own expense) which indicated how much steam inflationists still have up in their boilers. Excerpts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Governor, Senator, Dollar | 7/23/1934 | See Source »

...part of the sugar stored in the liver and muscles into the blood and the blood sugar concentration begins to rise rapidly, an average of 15 minutes after smoking. This effect continues for approximately half an hour, when the percentage of blood sugar again goes back to its previous level. However, the smoking of another Camel will again increase the blood sugar concentration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pick-Me-Up | 7/2/1934 | See Source »

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