Word: levelers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They too were not born in palaces! . . . You may imagine that I am willing to pass over the conditions among you for a couple of months, but I will not do so for a longer period. I will not allow the German Press to decline to a low cultural level...
...have to cut down on the number of jobs he would be able to give out of his $4,000,000,000 or else he would have to strike out all expensive materials from his schedule and thereby reduce the kind of work offered almost to the leaf-raking level of the old CWA. He had already promised millions for a great dam on Passamaquoddy Bay, Maine. He had to finish up public works Mr. Ickes started last year and the year before. When some $1,800,000,000 of his $4,000,000,000 had been allotted, the President...
...began to tighten. First Cornell, then California began to creep up on the leaders. At the Railroad Bridge, three miles from the start, Syracuse dropped back. Cornell and California, passing Washington, were fighting each other for the lead. The fight went on down the last mile of the river, level and murky in a late afternoon drizzle. Twenty-five strokes from the finish, California's Coxswain Reggie Watt looked at the Cornell crew and barked: "They'll beat us just the way Washington did, by six feet. . . ." Spectators on the observation train, on boats near the finish...
Fossils taken by the expedition from the sides of the Georges Bank valleys which extend more than a mile below sea level on the edge of the continental shelf, indicate that the last major crustal movement of the North Atlantic coast of America occurred since the Upper Cretaceous period, 105,000,000 years ago, and possibly since the Miocene age, 30,000,000 years...
These ocean valleys are now more than 6000 feet below sea level in their greatest depths on Georges Bank. An uplift sufficient to bring these valleys above present sea level implies Alpine heights for the highlands of New England and New York and a high plateau for the rest of this region. A cliff about 7000 feet high must have extended along the New England coast in those days...