Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...miles from the coast, attack New York. Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago, St. Louis by air. Lieut.-Col. Prentiss holds that, if such a fantastic possibility materialized, incendiary bombs and high explosives would be more harmful than gas. To be effective, gas requires masses of human beings at ground level and without adequate shelter. War gas is heavy. Even if the enemy had the tremendous number of planes and material to blanket one square mile of Manhattan, the inhabitants would need only to seek upper stories of houses and buildings, close their windows and wait for masked degassing squads to clean...
...long before the problem of Japanese imports became feverish. President Murchison left his house in Georgetown one day to smoke a pipe with his old friend. Assistant Secretary of State Francis Bowes Sayre, onetime trade adviser to the King of Siam, later a criminal law professor at Harvard. Level-headed Mr. Sayre and long-headed Dr. Murchison agreed 1) that the Japan Cotton Spinners' Association, whose members own 98% of Japan's 11,000,000 spindles, was powerful enough in itself to make a binding agreement; 2) that both the Japanese and the U. S. Governments would...
...Helen M. Lynd, instructor in social science at Sarah Lawrence College and co-author of "Middletown," will lecture on "Some Unsolved Problems in Experimental Education on the College Level" at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening at the Fogg Museum. The lecture is under the auspices of the Harvard Graduate School of Education...
...such array of talent or of enthusiasm could the President muster on his side. The best he had were Hugo LaFayette Black, Alben Barkley, Sherman Minton, Henry Ashurst, Robert La Follette. From these the level of enthusiasm and ability fell rapidly away. His reliable wheel horses Robinson, Harrison, Byrnes and others were still true, but their attitude indicated that at heart they were no more than lukewarm. Not yet forgotten was the promise of the Democratic platform, made last summer, that if the aims of the New Deal could not be accomplished within the Constitution an amendment would be proposed...
...found on top of each other in the space of one hundred feet. At the bottom is a Neolithic village, at the top an early Christian temple. From such remains, Professor Breasted and his followers have gained an intimate knowledge of ancient life, even of such matters as the level of prices over long periods of time and ancient court procedure...