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Word: leveller (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boat. 'God, he don't like a lot of rumpus, else why's it so quite out here.") Similarly, Robert K. Bingham's "Faux Pas" proceeds from an ingenious episode idea to pretty dubious execution of it. The infiltrating touches of amateurism would not jar if the top-level did not loom so very near...

Author: By S. S. H, | Title: On the Shelf | 9/23/1947 | See Source »

...thin, biting air of Catavi, 13,000 feet above sea level, the great refining plant last week lay still and smokeless. Past the paymaster's windows shuffled the Indians who dig and smelt a third of Bolivia's tin from the biggest of the Patiño mines. All 7,000 of them were being fired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: King Tin | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

Merchants were sure of one thing; the more money consumers were forced to spend on food, the less they could spend on clothing, autos, etc. Department-store sales in the last four weeks dropped 3% from the 1946 level. And sales in some stores, notably specialty shops, were down as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Devil Hunt | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

Council Treasurer Ray A. Goldherg '48 said last night that college participation in the fund drive will have to reach a 98 percent level in order to achieve the $25,000 figure. An intensive publicity campaign, featuring door-to-door appeals, will begin this week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Starts $25,000 Fund Drive | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...Mikkola's standards, last year's Varsity would up considerably below Dean's List, winning four and losing five including the Yale meet. They had hill trouble. On the flat they ran like greyhounds, only to collapse at the mere sight of an upgrade. Having to practice on the level University riverbank path for lack of transportation elsewhere was thought to be the cause...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mikkola Seeks Hill Country For Harrier Upgrade Work | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

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