Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conant said that a state "academic inventory" would "furnish the facts upon which parental action at the local level will be based." He counted on knowledge of the schools' quality to stimulate local pride and inter-city competition...
State minimum requirements cannot insure that able students are "sufficiently encouraged to elect a broad, stiff program of academic subjects," he pointed out, adding that "At the local level, however, a good deal can be done by counselors and by the development of the proper spirit in the school and the community by the principal and superintendent...
Flexible Finger. The Moho was discovered in 1909 by Seismologist A. Mohorovicic of Yugoslavia, when he noticed that the speed of earthquake waves increases suddenly at a certain level under the earth's surface (the depth varies from place to place). This suggested that the Moho marked a dividing line between different materials. Geologists believe that the Moho is the bottom edge of the granite and basalt that forms the lower layer of the earth's crust; under it is the earth's mantle consisting of a mixture of silicates and nickel-iron, which in turn encloses...
...inland to the "pole of inaccessibility," setting off dynamite charges in the ice to make seismic soundings every 30-50 miles. Echoes showed continuous land instead of a complex of islands or submerged mountains. The Russians say the land ranges from 2,500 to 12,000 ft. above sea level, with ice up to 3,000 ft. thick covering the high points...
...including California Architect John Lloyd Wright, author of My Father Who Is On Earth, and Mrs. Catherine Baxter, mother of Cinemactress Anne Baxter; in Santa Monica, Calif. "Young husband-to-be just twenty-one, the young wife-to-be not yet eighteen," wrote Frank Lloyd Wright in the split-level prose of his autobiography. "Wedding [1890] on a rainy day. More resembled a funeral. The sentimentality I was learning to dread came into full flower. The heavens weeping out of doors -all weeping indoors." The Wrights were separated in 1910, and divorced some years later. "The young husband found that...