Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pikes Peak. There, along the highway, from Crystal Creek to the summit (12½ miles), 15 sturdy runners plodded along in a unique contest called the Vertical Mile Marathon, sponsored by the Colorado Springs Junior Chamber of Commerce. At the snow-banked summit (14,108 ft. above sea level and exactly one mile higher than the starting point), a sunburned crowd of 300 watched all but five of the runners finish...
...Ohio was hoping last week for a World Series between the Cincinnati Reds and the Cleveland Indians, who were leading the American League (in a tie with the New York Yankees) on the Fourth. Level-headed experts, however, still favored the Yankees and Giants to meet in another subway series in New York City next October. If the Reds, who were seven games behind the league-leading Giants last week, should come home in front, Bill McKechnie, who won pennants for the Pirates (1925) and Cardinals (1928) during his 15-year career as big-league manager,* will be the first...
Said President Roosevelt (on Federal aid for education) : "Our aid, for many reasons, financial and otherwise, must be confined to lifting the level at the bottom. . . . [On freedom] : When the clock of civilization can be turned back by burning libraries, by exiling scientists, artists, musicians, writers and teachers, by dispersing universities and by censoring news and literature and art, an added burden is placed upon those countries where the torch of free thought and free learning still burns bright. If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands, they must be made brighter...
...Mudgett and inspires him to the best work he has done. Before long, peace-loving Mudgett is involved in as many complications as a Prime Minister, with the old lady blackmailing him for no crime, the bank clerk dodging the police who are not after him. Above the level of comic-novel fooling are good descriptions of Mudgett at work-more concerned about light and color than about the girl he is painting, gradually awaking to the fact that his pictures are getting bolder, better, brighter, the more he sees of her. By the time his emotions are most involved...
Inconsequential performance below the level of Norah Lofts's best work; the story of an English girl who makes a fortune writing popular songs, buys the old family house, gets her sisters home for a sentimental reunion, finds them all drifting their own ways as distant as ever...