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Word: leveler (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passing coal truckman named John Wilson knew at once how to save the three Negroes he saw waggling their arms at an upstairs window. Backing his truck up to the house. Driver Wilson geared in the motor to start elevating one end of the body. When it was nearly level with the window, he scrambled up, broke the pane with his shovel. "Hey!" he bellowed, "Jump, jump into the coal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Peace, Peace | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

...tracks. From 65? the price on various exchanges dropped to 63¼, 61¼, 58½?- nominal figures at which little or no real business was done. Nobody knew what the price of silver should be today since the U. S. had kept silver at an artificial level for nearly two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Again, Silver | 12/23/1935 | See Source »

...Stakhanov movement prepares the way for advancing from Socialism to Communism. In a Socialist society every one works according to his ability and receives in return not according to his needs but according to what he has produced for society. This means that the cultural and technical level of the working class is still not high, that a difference still exists between mental and physical labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Heroes of Labor | 12/16/1935 | See Source »

...principle of a Communist society is that every one works according to his ability and receives according to his cultural needs and not according to what he has produced. This means the cultural and technical level of the working class is sufficiently high to wipe out the contradictions between mental and physical labor. "Those who think the difference between mental and physical labor can be eliminated by lowering the technical level of engineers and technicians are absolutely incorrect. Only petty bourgeois jabberers can think this about Communism." These words, perfectly unintelligible to millions of proletarians, held the most profound interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Heroes of Labor | 12/16/1935 | See Source »

That is the best thing we can say about "Remember Last Night?" Take a look at the last page of the last CRIMSON, and you'll see the key to the difficulty. Eleven heads depicted!--Eleven major characters, each doing his level best to bewilder the unfortunate spectator. All detective movies befuddle us. But this one--oh boy! After studying intently those aforesaid faces in the CRIMSON, it is still impossible to pick out the first and principal of the numerous murder victims. And as for the villain, when he and his infernal craft were bared on the screen...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Moviegoer | 12/16/1935 | See Source »

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