Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vanguard. Not anything else. Just Vanguard . . . But it was the Soviet satellites that proved to be in the vanguard." Then, all joviality abandoned, Nikita Khrushchev made clear his intention of using Russia's new technological power as an instrument of international blackmail: "We would like a high-level meeting of representatives of capitalist and socialist countries to take place so as to reach an agreement based on the consideration of true reality...
...than his predecessors. If he refuses to play the rebel, it is probably because he feels he must cover too much ground to prepare himself for the future. Perhaps the most significant.paradox in collegiate life is that today's intellectual calm is largely the result of the rising level and increasing intensity of the average campus' intellectual demands...
Instead of English 10, which will pass out of existence this spring, the Department will accept a lower level Humanities course as "the proper avenue to concentration in English," Bate said...
McDonald also announced yesterday that as a result of the recent College Scholarship Service conference in New York, the scholarship officers of the Ivy Schools would hold a discussion session independent of their deans this fall. McDonald said the talks, which he described as "lower level," would consider the problems of scholarship aid keeping up with cost rises and of reducing apparent competitive bidding in the whole Ivy League...
Boston, like other metropolitan areas in the United States, is caught in the spiral of an increasing tax rate. City residents move into the suburbs when the tax level becomes high. With income decreased by the exodus to suburbia, the city is forced to raise the level again in order to survive. Boston's taxes this year were $86 per $1000; next year the Municipal Research Bureau fears they will rise...