Word: levelers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...judgment, then such a penalty as that handed out by the New Haven authorities, though harsh, may be justified in instances when actual damage to property or persons is involved. But one cannot be sure that any student body has reached the point where all of its members are level-headed and can remain uninfluenced by mob spirit under the circumstances that usually lead to college riots. There is a broad distinction between rioting with a definite destructive purpose in mind and occasional outbursts of misdirected energy, even though there be nothing whatever in the latter to justify them...
...year ago, and an average of only 47,000,000 for the last ten years. Other crops have been bountiful; the new U. S. crop is germinating. Europe is buying in small quantities, and from Argentina and Russia. These factors have created a generally lower level; more specific causes were suggested as helping last week's downpour...
...impossible for the talkie to use the nuances and half-tones necessary to the effective presentation of a complex idea. The real trouble with the talkie is that to be successful it must appeal to the lowest level of intelligence. The dramatist can choose whatever level he pleases...
...Machines eliminate drudgery. . . . Strange as it may seem, the more machines in operation, the more men at work. There are more men working today by 50% than at any time in the history of the world, and the standard of the worker has been raised to a much higher level...
...course there are some tennis enthusiasts who insist that the professional players of today are not on the same level with the cream of the amateur racquet-wielders. They will probably receive a severe jolt when they watch Vincent Richards and Karel Kozelub perform at Germantown next fall, but even if they are correct the inevitable result of putting the two branches of the sport on an equal footing will be an equalizing one. The good results of open tournaments may not all be apparent from the very start; but they will inevitably come out to the everlasting benefit...