Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more money for World War veterans. Last week, before leaving for France, Commander Doherty announced that the Legion will make no raids on the national Treasury this year, will modestly confine such activities to "placing . . . the wives of veterans of the World War on the same level as wives of veterans of previous wars in receiving pensions...
Once past the doorman-a 7 ft. 5 in. young Texan named Dave Ballard-visitors stepped into an interior whose smoothly modernistic, chromium-&-glass door reminded some of them of a Warner Bros. set, others of the Chicago World's Fair. A bar, starting at street level, spiraled all the way up to the mezzanine (an ingenious arrangement necessitated by a New York State law forbidding two bars in the same establishment). An escalator led up to a cocktail-and-dancing lounge. In a huge elliptical room whose shallow-bowl shape made it seem smaller than...
...October issue of the Harvard Guardian, just published, continues the level and pattern of the two preceding numbers. Representing a series of essays on various topics in history, political science, and economics, with incidental articles in related fields, the Guardian has established, all in all, a high standard for an undergraduate journal. Several of the essays could be printed, without apology, in a scientific publication of a semi-popular character. An additional virtue is their perfectly academic tone. In brief, the contributors and editors of the Guardian deserve sincere congratulation for their achievements to date...
...industrial averages reached a high of 190 for the summer. Then, to the confusion of prophets, the whole market began slipping. By last week the market was back almost to the year's lows-Dow-Jones industrials to 170, utilities to 26.40 and rails actually penetrating their previous level...
...opponent to stand up against him had to be able to hit hard and must not be afraid of him. Braddock had not been afraid but he had not been able to hit hard, so he was knocked out. Before the fight, Farr's stock reached almost zero level with the prizefight public when he posed for a picture with onetime Champion Braddock, onetime Champion Max Baer, onetime Contender Harry Wills, as his "advisers" (see cut). In the fight,' however, Joe Louis did not hit as hard or as accurately as the experts thought he would and Farr...