Word: levelers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forced to earn a considerable part of their expenses has brought to light case after case of men who are in distress. Some are too burdened with outside work to fulfill the high promise of their earlier years. Some, failing to keep their scholastic average up to the minimum level required of scholarships, are deprived of this assistance and forced to abandon, for a time at least, their scholarly careers. Some keep their studies above the minimum level only at a strain that overtaxes their strength and leads to a breakdown. Whatever advantages this stern regime may have for some...
...keep from appearing too pleased when the other was around. For each thought he had got the better of the bargain, and each had reason for thinking so. Mr. King could say with truth that his concessions had amounted to little but a reduction of Canadian tariffs to the level they were...
...real motives. There is some use in refusing to be diverted by the practical aspects of the problem. England is acting righteously; therefore she should be sanctioned and supported. But at the same time her true purpose must not be forgotten, must not be relegated to the level of insignificant moral niceties...
...swimming pool. Nevertheless the geologist got to work, enlisted the technical ingenuity of Dr. William Maurice Ewing of Lehigh University. It was necessary to waterproof the dynamite charges, steel-jacket the seismographs, rig electrical connections and a device for determining whether the recorders on the bottom were level. After making sure that everything was shipshape aboard the Atlantis, Dr. Field went ashore, left the survey in Dr. Ewing's hands...
...that a deep sense of futility was destroying the organization, embittering her lover's life. Despite all the self-sacrifice and passion of individual members, V. M. R. 0. was degenerating into a tool of the great powers, who employed it to harass rivals, reduced it to the level of hired gunmen. When