Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...which the nervous system enters; third, a commercial layer composed of men employed in buying and distributing; and last, a class in agricultural and forestry employ. Transition from one of these layers to the others should be kept easy. Opposed to this transition are two forces: one, the operative level in industry; and the other, the trade union--the most undemocratic thing we have ever developed in the United States
...threat of repudiation of a bona fide debt by withdrawal, but rather an earnest attempt to insure a larger membership in order that the obligations of the Association may be more widely apportioned and the price of board for each individual be reduced to a more normal level than at present obtains...
Professor G. A. Reisner '89 has been chosen to an important post in Egypt. This is the charge of the excavations that are now being carried on above the new Assouan dam. A large tract of country is soon to be inundated by a raise in the level of the dam, and it is the intention of the Egyptian government to have this territory thoroughly explored for archacological remains before it is covered with water. With several trained assistants and a large force of workmen Professor Reisner entered on his work in September last, and in the first month...
...entrance 150 feet high. The material of construction will be concrete reinforced by steel trusses and faced with terra cotta. The auditorium will have a permanent seating capacity of 5000, with the seats arranged in the arena pit form, and the ice surface about 6 feet below the level of the main lobby. Access to the ice will be afforded by four large passageways leading from a wide promenade in the rear of the seats. When hockey is being played these entrances will be closed, and a passageway leading directly from the locker rooms to the level...
...level of this number's poetry is considerably below that of its prose. "Explanations," by Mr.E.E. Hunt, and "Voices in the Fall," by Mr. Tinckom-Fernandez, are little more than experiments in versification. Mr. Husband's "Dry Northeaster" is a spirited bit of writing, marred by a lack of technique. "Aft" does not rhyme with "mast"; nor can an adjective conclude one line, while the noun it qualifies begins the next, as in the opening of the second stanza. In Mr. Biddle's "On the Bridge" it is probably a printer's error that gives "eye" as a rhyme...