Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...While he breathed gustily into the dog's mouth, his assistant rubbed the kinky-haired little body, rocked it on the teeterboard. The stimulant solution sank in a glass gauge as it seeped into the corpse through five feet of rubber tubing. In a little while the gauge level stopped falling, began to rise in slow pulsations. Lazarus II gasped. His leg twitched. His heart began to beat, feebly at first, then like a triphammer, then normally. Lazarus II was alive...
...Harvardman, raise delightful hell in New York. To Mill-Superintendent Thayer it was the whole U. S. To his silly wife it was the small town to which she was condemned. To his daughter Marjorie it was the springboard to dramatic triumphs in Manhattan. To Micky, level-headed Irish girl who worked in the Baumann mill, it was just things-as-they-are, and pleasant enough when she went down to the seaside cave with her Portuguese lover, Ramon. To Labor Agitator Marvin, Fullerton was another opportunity. When the Baumann mill announced a 10% wage-cut to protect its dividends...
...humiliation that comes with an indictment in the court of public opinion. If the grand jury subsequently refused to indict, the injustice would not be erased. There would always be the innuendo derived from the publicity given originally that somehow the taxpayer wasn't exactly on the level with his government...
There is, of course, the danger--and it is by no means a slight one--that prices of rum will be maintained on about the present level by the retail liquor stores and that they will simply pocket the extra profit. If this happens the Federal government should take steps to insure the sale of the rum at a decent price to the consumer, for the whole project is being financed by the government out of the funds of the Public Works Administration, and in view of this public character of the work it should certainly not be permitted...
...group of younger minds who are indeed awake to the changing exigencies of modern education. Those at the head of things have openly expressed themselves on the question of the calibre of faculty men. They are eager to build the staff on instruction to the highest possible human level, and to do this they are willing to go to ends which at present may seem revolutionary. So far these steps have been taken in the direction of ringing out the old. Now, indeed, the time has come for ringing...