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Word: leveler (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expressed the hope that increased contact between Western and Iron Curtain countries on the student level might eventually lead to greater international cooperation since people of "our age group are the leaders of tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Moscow's Youth Festival Called Propaganda Move | 4/19/1957 | See Source »

Underneath the story of the gentle, Christ-like Cathleen, Yeats suggests morals, and points to open questions, usually on the level of simplicity and common sense. Famine, for example, is clearly a great road away from religion. Devils are often triumphant in the material world; they pay. Moreover, they can even pay with Cathleen's--and through her, God's--money...

Author: By Larry Hartmann, | Title: The Countess Cathleen | 4/18/1957 | See Source »

...effective vehicle for expressing student opinion and obtaining student interests. Even though the NSA does not maintain a Washington lobby, it does have considerable influence on national legislation. For example, in the past few years, the NSA has been instrumental in keeping appropriations for Fulbright scholarships at a high level. The NSA, while it represents a generally voteless segment of the population, has repeatedly requested increased tax deduction for students, and the institution of a federal scholarship program. Equality of opportunity for students of all races in American universities has constituted another successful NSA campaign. Through membership on the American...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NSA Referendum | 4/17/1957 | See Source »

...their animals; and from afar they come, from the coasts of the sea." They "sacrifice to their standards, and their weapons of war are the object of their worship." Exponents of the theory that the Kittim are the Syrians see the "smooth ground" as meaning alternately a plain, a level road, the plateau east of the Dead Sea-or merely that they were unopposed. They identify the "animals" with which they trample the earth as the war elephants of which the Syrians were proud. But since the Hebrew language has a word for elephant, others ask, why did the scroll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Out of the Desert | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

...terminal, announced last week, the chief feature is a four-acre cantilever roof of prestressed concrete that extends 110 ft. over the aircraft parking apron. Protected by the overhanging roof, travelers will board their planes directly from second-floor waiting rooms along level gangplanks 10 ft. above the ground. Incoming passengers who do not have to go through customs will get their baggage within five minutes from a speedy conveyer belt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Saucer Terminal | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

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