Word: levelers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their terms as assistant professors, only these men will be promoted to associate professorships for whom a vacancy at the full professor level is certain to appear; the others will be given their walking papers...
...Administration's "Case" is presented by Ward Hussey '40, editor-in-chief of the Guardian, who urges shifting the ground of the controversy from the level of "verbal brickbats" to a plane of serious and rational consideration in "an atmosphere of cooperation...
...carrier Glorious: she is certainly not Ark Royal, which has a full flight deck. The escorting battleship, aside from being in an unlikely position (aft of the carrier instead of ahead, shielding her), resembles no known British ship (her two masts carry big fire-control tops at the same level...
...reason for this hunt for new capacity is partly Act of God. Last summer's drought lowered the level of the rivers which feed the 27% of U. S. power capacity which is hydro instead of steam. Last year when water was plentiful, hydro output set a new record: 41,500,000,000 kilowatt hours, 38% of the total...
...Philadelphia last week met 5,000 men who have seen and caused more blood and wounds than any 5,000,000 of their fellows. Two hundred years ago such men were rated on a level with barbers (a trade they often combined with theirs). But no one last week could have so mistaken their social standing. Neat, spry and greying, the American College of Surgeons wandered among the palms of the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel surveying wall-racks steely-bright with surgical knives, forks and spoons, rooms crowded with electrical vibrating beds, weird steel scaffolds for broken limbs, gently breathing rubber...