Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public appear ance he is a conservative little man. Not handshaking, not backslapping, not silver-tongued oratory, not radical promises, are his. He lacks nearly all the tools of the political trade but his State trusts him as a decent, well-behaved, hard-working executive who is doing his level best for some 12,000,000 citizens...
...sailors. . . . Japan is ready to meet any contingencies and is sufficiently prepared for any changes arising from termination of the Washington Treaty. . . . The shipbuilding possibilities of America are far inferior to those of Japan,* and it would not be easy for the United States to rise to the Japanese level...
Although Harvard had procured a license to operate an outdoor parking space at standard rates, it had not obtained permission to level the sidewalk and to drive cars into the let. With resistance against destroying the curb adamant, the entire project appeared on the point of collapsing until on Tuesday the Cambridge City Council voted a permit to let the University go to work on the curbstone...
Certain facts stand out clearly. The Japanese were prepared for a drastic reduction in naval armaments, on the basis of a common upper level of tonnage. This was a plan compatible with the idea of national security and prestige. This plan the United States flatly rejected...
...himself to read. Bunny's most startling exploit occurred shortly after that when he sat down at a piano, worked out a system of musical notation, using a different number for each note. Today he is a chubby, serious lad with a mental age of 16, a conversational level above that of the ordinary adult. Only normal in his physical development, he suffers from a desire to revise the rules of every game he plays, sometimes bursts out crying if he loses. He likes best to perform feats of daring. Pet dislikes are fighting and arguing, both of which...