Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...increasing volume of transactions. The recent enlargement of domestic purchasing power has been encouraging, but it is not enough to absorb even a small fraction of the surpluses. Curtailed production is not efficient either in agriculture or in industry to take care of the employment situation or the price level...
...much to the front in the furnishing of native American scholars and writers. The Middle West! It is the newer New England. But no State is more "Middle West" than Iowa. It is typical. Governor and Senator Cummings used to tell us that Iowa is characterized by the highest level of general welfare of all the States of the Union. No great city there, no congestion of population; universal high living conditions, total absence of poverty, high level of educational opportunity for every child, maximum conditions of cultivation of the soil, well-to-do people everywhere. Slums or degradation nowhere...
...Cornell, Student Mott wrote out advice to himself which he has since followed: "No worry, no excessive indulgence of the emotions, no doing two hours' work in one hour's time. . . . Have only a few intimates and those the best-for no man rises above the moral level of his intimates. Don't neglect the society of cultivated women...
...Chesterton feels that the system of thought which Thomas Aquinas brought to its highest level has a good deal to say to the modern man. He has not been bullied out of his position by scornful a priori; he realizes that the only defense of Thomas Aquinas is in explanation of his ideas, and of the simple principles upon which those ideas were founded. He shows that the Thomist philosophy was a great balance between the exaggerations of realism and idealism which preceded it, and that the exaggerations of realism and idealism which are the dominant philosophical schools...
...higher scholastics of the Freshmen would materially raise the cultural level of the whole college, the preparatory schools would be forced to offer a far more advanced curriculum than at present. There is no question that such a change cannot be accomplished in a single year; the radical developments necessitated could neither be forced upon nor digested by the conservative organization of American secondary education in less than a dozen years...