Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three hours later the boy at the pithead heard the signal bell from the 141-ft. level, indicating that the three wanted to come up. Seconds later he heard the dread nine bell alarm, meaning DANGER, then a great rumbling roar. The walls of the shaft had buckled, the ground over nearly an acre had dropped several feet. Headed by Premier Angus MacDonald, most of Nova Scotia's Provincial officials rushed to the scene...
...Metropolitan Police have trimmed all the shrubbery on the left bank of the Charles down to a level of three inches wherever possible and have thinned out the copses...
Clearly, with no incentive for good teaching--in fact, when holding a teaching job demands that teaching be relegated to the background,--it is not surprising that the teaching level of the Physics department is at a discouragingly low ebb. Concentrators complain that tutorial is a farce. No tutor can be expected to give adequate attention to that part of his work when to do so is nothing short of suicidal. Three years are required to develop an inexperienced instructor into a good tutor; by that time one of two things has happened to him. He has tried to become...
Running off its peace meeting with dignity and decorum that belie the name of "strike", the Student Union's Peace Committee can at last take credit for raising Harvard pacifistic celebrations to the level of reason and respectability. An attitude of calm and mature deliberation held sway in Sanders Theatre yesterday which marks a decided improvement over the late reign of terror on Widener's battle-scarred steps and will inevitably do more real good for the cause of peace. Professional patriots like the Legion cannot attack the gathering at Sanders as they handled rebellious Chicago school children, or obfuscate...
...acre farm he had bought sight unseen, Julian hoped that their moving days were over. Mr. Howard was a bookish, improvident schoolteacher whose every move was to the Promised Land. Mrs. Howard was a philosopher with a weak heart. Julian, the only child, was a level-headed youngster who saw through his father's grown-up dignity to the helpless human being behind it. Mr. Howard, full of the intellectual's passion for the land, and a small pocketful of savings, was no match for the hard-headed natives. They sold him worthless stock and too-expensive machinery...