Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grandson, Bayard, and his playmate, a negro boy, gradually progress from childhood into manhood, always under her influence and as-similating her valiant spirit and indomitable will. Ringo, the negro, is recognized almost on a level with Bayard, and in many ways he appears to be his superior. It is he on whom Granny Sarforis leans for support in the crucial moments. He is always in her confidence in her plots, while Bayard seems to act on his orders without knowing...
...those who are not. Pointing out that few families with incomes of less than $2,000 a year can afford to send a child to college, and that 80% of U. S. families are in that category, he declared: "It is perfectly evident to me that at the college level and at the advanced professional school stage, all the institutions of the country have been fishing in one small pond...
...Gypsum stockholders assembled in Chicago, Chairman Avery declared that Franklin Roosevelt had been misleading in his comparison of 1938 with 1929. In 1929, said Mr. Avery, plaster prices were drastically low because of a savage price war. Today Gypsum's average prices are 9% under the 1926 level which Franklin Roosevelt has often called his commodity price goal...
...greatest work. Consistent with his theory that the master theme of America is big business, he brings forth in this play a tragicomedy of the stock-ticker. Trenchant satire aimed at those for whom business is "health, religion, friendship, love" is the core, "The Henrletta" is well above the level of melodrama, and hence there will be no burlesquing of maudlin morality, but rather a serious rendition of serious social comment, on the theme that has since been dwelt upon by Lewis, O'Neill, and others...
...LeBoutillier, a Princeton alumnus and chairman of the advisory council for the band, was so impressed by the superiorty of the Crimson contingent that he started a campaign "to bring the Tiger band up to the level of their football team...