Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Charles Baudelaire. 4. Maurice Level...
...largest dose of soothing syrup. In Switzerland he told the International Chamber of Commerce, which he had headed for two years: "Europe does not need to fear that an American postwar corrective recession will degenerate into a depression. . . . [Recessions] are necessary to reduce costs and prices to a level which permits an economy to function to best advantage. Moreover, they serve to increase labor productivity and managerial efficiency and lay the basis for further improvements in living standards...
University Hall has called attention to the fact that the composition of these classes will be different from that of previous summer terms and, for that reason, the courses have been pitched on a different, higher level...
...other interests leaves academics as almost the sole outlet--with the exception of what is likely to be a heavy social schedule--for collegiate energy. If the past two terms have been characterized by an "unhealthy emphasis" on grades, the present term may well produce an even higher level of scholastic absorption. In an ordinary term this pre-occupation might be a matter for concern on the part of the administration. But the Summer Term of 1947 is not and has never been represented as an ordinary term. It is the last gasp of the war time acceleration, adapted...
...permitted to leave Moscow during her stay in Russia. But her restless curiosity and good-natured brashness got her into schools, museums, churches, ordinary homes and, with the help of interpreters, into occasional friendly arguments. Over at Uncle Joe's is haphazard reporting on the breezy, often pointless level of a women's-club lecture. But it does convey something of what daily living is like for both foreigners and Muscovites, and Moscow itself becomes a city instead of a featureless backdrop for the Kremlin...