Word: levelers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reputedly Ambassador Davies believes the Old Bolshevik trials have been "on the level." Certainly it would be undiplomatic for him to believe otherwise. Correspondents who accompanied him on his recent Russian industrial tour by private train - (TIME, March 15) paid their rail fare at the Embassy before leaving Moscow and only four went. They were surprised and delighted to be handed back their money afterward, assured that they had been the Ambassador's "personal guests." Before leaving Moscow last week, Mr. Davies predicted a rapid rise in U. S. exports to the U. S. S. R., based this...
When the results were incorporated in a graph showing the relation of spinster emotionality to age, the line rose from a low level at the tender age of 15 to a peak at 25. This was followed by a shallow dip at age 30 and another peak at 35. Then came a dip of placidity, with its lowest point at age 45, then a climb reaching the highest peak of all at 60. Author's explanation : "We may perhaps think of the two rises in the curve as associated respectively with increasing tension from the life-problems of sexual...
...Recovery, particularly the dizzy rise in commodity prices. And after a visit to the White House last fortnight, the Government bond market broke wide-open (TIME, March 22). Hence, the natural assumption last week was that the Reserve Board might be ready to let interest rates seek a higher level. Said Mr. Eccles in correction...
...their hands are tied by an undue reverence for the Freshman and the custom of having a third of each class in any one house. But if this pretense is to be dropped and justice administered, upperclassmen in good standing who have tried repeatedly should be viewed on a level with Freshmen of the same scholastic rank. Having served his time watching college life from the sidelines, the deserving Sophomore should be given an opportunity to get into the game, and the Freshman allowed to take the bench...
...under the unstated compulsion of keeping men outside the pale of a passing mark. The Government One staff should be allowed complete freedom in marking for the next year. During this moratorium they could observe whether the quality of work continues to improve. If the present tide ebbs, the level of marks would automatically equate with the curve. But if the improvement should prove permanent Professor Holcombe could then consider changing the course standards to preserve the indubitable advantage of having a scientific curve of distribution. But any arbitrary attempt attempt to dam the tide of rising marks now will...