Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fairfax Courthouse, Va., Norman Malay drove his truck at a moderate speed oh a level road, inexplicably turned a complete somersault...
...Tried out his new "throne," a handsomely carved, high-legged walnut chair specially designed to seat him at eye level with those who file by him at official handshaking functions. Terribly tiring are all White House receptions, but worst is the diplomatic reception, social high light of the Washington winter season. With the aid of the "Siege Perilous"-so dubbed by Washington wits-Franklin Roosevelt came paint-fresh through the exhausting ordeal...
When the British pound was at its prewar level (near par: $4.86), ?230 ($1,117.80) per ton would have been a good price for tin-equivalent (with the cost of freight and insurance) to about 48? per Ib. As the world's biggest user of tin, the U. S. is much interested in its price. When the official pound was dropped to $4.02-$4.06, ?230 per ton became equivalent to only 40? per Ib. So last week Britain killed her wartime rule, which since September had forbidden the sale of tin on the London Metal Exchange at more than...
...Pierre van Paassen's "Days of our Years" remains one of the most enthralling, and certainly the best written, of the "personal histories" which the future will find useful in reconstructing our times. Mr. Van Paassen's literary gifts are sufficient to raise his book well above the level of what used to be called "journalism." Sometimes it seems as though the journalists are writing the only really worthwhile books these days. . . . Clarence Streit's "Union Now" has attracted much attention as one man's intelligent and constructive program for a lasting world peace. May it yet be possible that...
...struggling with notes which one might expect from a group made up of amateurs even to the conductors. The outstanding job was done by the Radcliffe Madrigal Group in the three carols for women's voices, but the execution of the whole program was on a surprisingly high level. The concert and others like it in the one of the most enjoyable types of undergraduate activity...