Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...union defended their move by claiming that waitresses and cooks find it hard to get a job during the summer. "We have to eat 365 days in the year, and because of this Harvard employees should have a higher wage level. The University pays its officers a yearly salary whether students are here...
...cooks and waitresses pay the union 75 cents a month and want their money's worth. For this reason labor representatives have not stopped at a reasonable agreement. Their current demands not only ask for what amounts to a 50 percent wage increase over the 1937 level, but also attacks the University's cherished pension plan and its aversion to a closed shop. True to the history of American labor, the locals are taking a mile. Or trying...
...over the sea and, with 20 gallons of gas left-enough to keep him aloft only another twenty minutes-he was told his position was off the Point Reyes light. By now the dispatcher was running the plane. He told Stead there was a rough beach and a bench (level ground above a beach) behind the light...
Eliot emphasized the need for clear, level-headed student action. He said that if the country gave way to the fear aroused by the constant war scarce, democracy would fall...
...private interview, as the Vagabond's English professor had said that other people were going to be there, too, but that didn't disturb Vag. He was going to be very intelligent and professional and show these people that at least one Harvard undergraduate could appreciate productions on a level higher than the Old Howler...