Word: levell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many join because their fathers belonged. Some join because membership is good for their business or good for their political careers (this is known scornfully as "button Masonry"). More join because they meet the town's best citizens on eye level. Some, perhaps, join out of mere curiosity over the mysterious rites. The majority join just to be with the gang-and are more or less surprised to experience a quite considerable spiritual uplift after they get in. Said a Rutland, Vt. advertising salesman: "There's something gets under your skin at a lodge meeting which makes...
...down to the kitchen-door level ... do business with housewives, mechanics, retailers, schoolteachers, printers, bakers and the other millions who compose the German population...
...Rocky Mountains subjects) and color photographer; of an unidentified disease contracted in The Himalaya; in Sussex, England. Graduating from. Swiss Alpine feats to bigger things (Kinchinjunga, 28,146 ft, 1930; Kamet, 25,447 ft., 1931), Smythe tackled Everest (29,141 ft.) in 1933, reached the 28,000-ft. level, had to turn back after trying alone for the summit. During the war he trained U.S. and British troops in mountain warfare...
...role. For years, and as recently as LIFE'S Round Table on the movies (TIME, June 27), they had heard familiar squawks from Hollywood: theater owners take most of the film industry's profits, run the fewest risks and keep its output down to mediocre level by calling the turn for the moviemakers...
Pigs Just Eat. This resentment is grounded partly in the psychology of a colonial people whose standards of living, general educational level and technical proficiency were raised well above the standards of their mainland Chinese brethren. The Japanese, for example, trained 30,000 Formosan doctors, more than the number in all the rest of China. But when the mainland Chinese took over the island, they did not even treat the Formosans as equals, but as "liberated" inferiors. The result is that even thoughtful Formosans now say: "We think of the Japanese as dogs and the Chinese as pigs...