Word: levelers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...around the serpentine folds of the course. Grasslands Downs is not so hard as the famous course at Aintrée, but hard enough; it has 14 fences, ditches, water-jumps, some of them with difficult drops to sloping ground, whereas at Aintrée the drops are generally level. The first five fences behind them, the horses crossed the first ditch and had their tails to the stands. The horses going fast in front were falling at every jump. Julius Fleischmann's big chestnut gelding, Irish Lad, threw his jockey, staggered on a little farther, fell dead...
Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $22,500,000,000 Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4,750,000,000 Farmers' Capital . . . . . . . . . . 2,250,000,000 Profits & Interest. . . . . . . . . . 80,850,000,000 Profits ("below income tax level") . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,375,000,000 Furniture & Movable Property. 7,500,000,000 Government & Local Property. 4,500,000,000 Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $124,725,000,000 Less Property Owned by Foreigners 2,500,000,000 "Total Gross Wealth". . $122,225,000,000 Less Debt Charges. . . . . . . . . 32,000,000,000 "Total Net Wealth" . . . . . . . . $92,225,000,000 *At Southampton last week as he sailed for Manhattan on the Aquitania, Mr. Young was not even asked...
...reducing at one staggering stroke the earnings of 60% of the nation, Il Duce believes that he can force the sellers of manufactured goods and foodstuffs to cut their prices drastically, thus hammering down the cost of living to the lowered level of wages. Thus far, in the opinion of the Dictator, profiteering tradesmen have not cut their retail prices nearly enough to bring these into line with the staggering decline in wholesale raw product prices throughout the world...
...because they could not even watch the Indian Round Table Conference, held in the Royal Gallery of the House of Lords from the balcony of that hall. Reason: the haughty Indian princes would not stomach that any spectator, even a peer of the realm, should sit on a higher level than themselves...
...completely destroys the independence of a college paper and much of its usefulness as an organ of student opinion. If editors are forced to fear the wrath of a higher authority, their editorials are bound to hedge on all controversial subjects and tend to be reduced below the level of unopinionated explanations...