Word: levelers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hampden does his level best with this nonsense, fails to dispel an impression that he appears in it because he lost a sporting election...
...task to effect a balance of power between the cast and the west. Yet this is what must be done if Harvard is to beat provincialism. Mr. Conant has a hard task ahead of him, made even more difficult by the necessity of maintaining academic standards at the present level. But he must continue to develop the frontier and push it forward if Harvard is to be a national university...
...past years the Crimson harriers, trained only on the level banks of the Charles, have found the rough footing and unusual conditions of the Nassan course a serious disadvantage...
...decibel is a varying unit of loudness. It represents the smallest difference in the level of sound which the ear can detect. The decibel difference between the rustle of leaves (8) and whispering (11) represents small intensities of sound. The decibel difference between a motor truck (77) and an elevated train (81) represents tremendous energy...
...poetic gift and of his fierce resentment at the low estate of poets in contemporary U. S. society. The 38 poems in Invisible Landscapes, ranging from patriotic pieces like Give Us Back Our Country, to the obscure, arid, rambling speculations of Hymn to the Earth, are far below the level of Spoon River...