Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Malia recalls one rather touching scene of the black market in operation on a lower level. In Leningrad he noticed a little crowd around a man selling pictures. They were not the type of pictures which one can buy so easily from such little men in Paris; they were old photographs of Robert Taylor and Jeanette MacDonald, and never ones of Girard Philippe and Gina Lollobrigida...
...level of education in the Soviet Union is high, according to Malia. Virtually every town has a so-called seven-year school, and at present plans are being made to make a ten-year school compulsory. The Russian child starts his formal education at the age of seven...
Said one Tokyo silk exporter last week: "Among silk exporters the Honorable Tilton is on a level equal to the mulberry leaf and the silkworm." The Honorable Tilton is Marion Elizabeth Tilton, 35, the tall (5 ft. 9 in.), pretty Far East boss of Cohn-Hall-Marx (Cohama Fabrics). In the last ten years, almost singlehanded she has rewoven Japan's quality silk industry, putting it in shape to compete in the U.S. with the flood of postwar synthetics. Under the tutelage of the onetime New York model and wartime Red Cross girl, Japan's silk output rose...
...effort to stimulate interest in the teaching profession, President Pusey has appointed a special Committee on Teaching for Harvard and Radcliffe College. The ten-member group will consider the Colleges' role in interesting able men and women in teaching careers at every level...
White also felt that the most acute problem is to be found on the elementary school level...