Word: levelers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recent murmurings of the possibility of reducing, or raising, all unorganized sport to the same level of intra-mural athletics have aroused a great deal of comment. If such a change were proposed, certainly the undergraduate body should have a voice in the matter...
...fiction the elegiac note is absent, but the same restrained exoticism still appears. Each of the stories is good, but the only one which seems to emerge from the level of distinguished composition-class work is "Another Country" by John M. Cunningham. Setting the Sciltan Mafia on an American water-front, it builds with almost unfailing crescendo, a sequence of extortion, intimidation and violent death. "The Blue Bird" by H. P. Coolidge places a troupe of Russian ballet dancers in an American hotel and sketches with humor and feeling the aversion of a lesser Nijinsky tragedy. The third fictional item...
...most of them stodgy, elderly men. "Can we not reasonably expect," he asked, "that, without creating inconsistencies between the textile industry of an individual country and the economic structure of that country as a whole, other social conditions in the textile industry can likewise be raised to the level of other industries...
...types than newsprint, notably kraft and paperboard. Paperboard (boxes) accounts for nearly one-half the total U. S. paper production. So great is the current demand for paperboard containers that prices have jumped about 50% in the past four months, another boost last week carrying quotations to the highest level in ten years...
...acceptances were hiked not once but twice, bringing the rate to its highest point in three years and slightly above the figure offered by the Federal Reserve Banks ( ½of 1%). However, the Federal Reserve not only refused to up its acceptance buying rate to the open market level but actually bought some bankers' ½ bills, for the first time in more than two years, thus flashing its clear distaste for the strength of the money market. When it increased bank reserve requirements last January, the Federal Reserve expected short-term interest rates to firm a little, its chief...