Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Undergraduate Athletic Council may re-elevate boxing to an intercollegiate level in a special meeting Monday night, it was learned last night. The group, meeting primarily to elect new members, will probably discuss the issue and may reach a vote...
...level-headedness of undergraduates was just what the newspapermen wanted to see break down when Hiss spoke. They emigrated from the city in droves, cornering reluctant students to voice an opinion on a man convicted when they were thirteen or fourteen. Photographers were so rambunctious when University proctors spirited Hiss into Whig Hall that he arranged an escape through the rear exit, leaving the men of the press taking pictures of themselves at the front. Representatives from Reuters, the London News-Chronicle, and the New Republic, who were left on the door-step, didn't get much of a story...
While statesmen and would-be states men debated Communism's latest moves at the rooftop level of foreign policy last week, Attorney General Herbert Brownell brought the subject right down to lock-jimmying level where it belongs. Speaking in Dallas to a meeting of the Inter-American Bar Association, Brownell said: "The primary objective of the Communist conspiracy today is to create the illusion that it is not a conspiracy. But every shred of available evidence shows that the conspiracy is conducting business as usual, if not on an intensified scale...
First, Macmillan rehearsed the melancholy facts beneath Britain's hectic prosperity-the rising prices at home, the declining exports abroad, the dwindling gold and dollar reserves as imports soared. "The economy is still running at a very high level,'' he said, but "there is really no future in importing extra materials that we cannot afford, in order to turn them into extra goods that we do not export.'' Like workers in a candy factory...
...level-headedness of undergraduates was just what the newspapermen wanted to see break topics had dwindled, and Whig-Clio wanted to do something to spark sagging attendance at it's lectures. Though they knew that Hiss could impart no special information on "The Meaning of Geneva," they were genuinely curious about what he would have to say. Whig-Clio undoubtedly was interested to some degree in the publicity of a Hiss appearance, but of course had no notion that it would create such an unfortunate furor...