Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weather turned bad again, but the caravan wound without disaster down a glacier on the edge of the ice cap. The Sno-Cats crossed the last crevasses in a swirling blizzard, and reached fairly level ice. The buildings of Scott Station loomed ahead on the white horizon, with their promise of hot baths and letters from home. When the first congratulations were over. Dr. Fuchs admitted that he had made one miscalculation. He had estimated in advance that he would need 100 days to cross Antarctica; he had made...
...suffering that people have had, and the one with the saddest life gets the refrigerator. It's like watching a medieval morality play with all the vices paraded before you-avarice, for instance." As for The $64,000 Challenge, on which he flunked out at the $8,000 level when he failed to identify the Shalamar Gardens, he recalls: "The air conditioning in my booth broke down, and I came out, my ears popping, gasping for breath. I was preceded by a ten-year-old boy who used up all the air spelling very long words...
Tonal beauty in every section forms the outstanding feature of the orchestra. The winds have always been strong; but now the strings are demonstrating a richness and, at times, even a brilliance. There is very little to complain of in the technical aspect of their present level of performance...
...shenanigans have certainly done nothing to help Republicanism either at Harvard or on a statewide level...
Despite a hard winter, stocks of heating oil are still far above last year's level; gasoline stocks are at an alltime high. Refiners in Oklahoma and Texas have been forced to cut crude prices, and pressure is building up for a further slash in Oklahoma allowables. Domestic producers blame the situation on heavy imports, but importers are complaining that their quotas under the Government's voluntary-import quota program are not high enough to enable them to operate efficiently. While imports of petroleum and oil products reached a record high of 1,897,500 bbl. at latest...