Word: levelers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...familiar phrase "scraping bottom" was heard whenever businessmen last week stopped discussing the President's credit plan to talk about trade. Just as a man can cut his diet down only to a certain point, apparently U. S. business had reached the lowest possible level of consumption. While general business held at the same level (68.6% by one index) three big industries showed the following...
...considerable benefit to the United States to maintain this situation, because it establishes New York City as one of the most important financing centers of the world, and, viewing the matter even more selfishly, it enables the American public to repatriate American securities at a rather low price level...
...scientific philosophy is comfortingly anthropocentric. The universe of 20th Century physics he accepts completely. It is for him a stupendous organization of atoms, electrons, protons, radiations and quanta. From this "uncertain nebulous underworld, there seems to crystallize out, or literally to materialize, the macroscopic world. . . . We rise to new levels as later on we pass from the physical to the biological level, and again from the latter to the conscious mind. But-and this is the significant fact-all these levels are genetically related and form an evolutionary series; and underlying the differences of the successive levels, there remains...
...organic evolution. From the viewpoint of physics, life and mind are thus singular and exceptional phenomena, not in line with the movement of the universe as a whole. . . . Perhaps we may even say that at the Present epoch there is no other globe where life is at the level manifested on earth. ... I suggest that at the present cosmic epoch we are the spectators of what is perhaps the grandest event in the. immeasurable history of our universe...
...maximum standard, the minimum is determined by the laws of these states. It is the duty of the law schools to make standards as high as possible, but it is just as much the office of the governments to maintain the minimum requirements at a sufficiently high level, by supervising more carefully the quality, and through quality, the quantity, of men admitted...