Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...larger, accepting a share of the national problem of providing a high quality of education for unprecedented numbers of students. This fall, the same committee restated its conclusion and added that "Harvard College should and in all probability will grow during the next ten years to reach an approximate level...
Since politics in Massachusetts is pretty much foregone confusion, the intelligent voter quite often emerges from the polling booth more frustrated than pleased. State campaigns usually come down to the level of a horse race between two old nags, and the best that voters can do is to support the candidate whose promises sound better conceived and more sincerely motivated...
...precious stones" had often been thought a pious tale until archaeologists uncovered the ruins of Sheba in Yemen in 1951, found indication that the kingdom's chief trade route ran through Israel. This threw new light on the Queen's visit: it was probably a high level business conference...
...reserves have increased only 48%. One big reason is that oil is getting harder and more expensive to find. According to Independent Petroleum Association of America, the cost of finding, developing and producing oil and gas has jumped 43% since 1948 v. a mere 6.5% increase in the general level of crude-oil prices...
Baroque Flavor. Austria's economic renaissance is far more substantial, however, than a whipped-cream prosperity concocted by tourists. For the first time since its establishment in 1918, the little Maine-sized republic is economically solid. Industrial output is running at more than 2½ times the 1937 level; foreign trade has nearly doubled since 1953, and the country is enjoying near full-employment. National income has soared from 25.3 billion schillings ($1 billion) in 1948 to 80.5 billion schillings ($3.2 billion...