Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Enrollment is expected to decline from its current high level this September, when the Business School will revert to its pre-war practice of admitting only one class a year, instead of the present four...
...average teacher's pay is a scant $36 dollars per week. Recent college surveys reveal that graduates are by-passing the teaching profession for very hard-headed economic reasons. Yet, if the quality of teaching is to rise (360,000 teachers have not gone beyond the college sophomore level) it is precisely these educated people who must be attracted and held. The states are responsible for education, but mere historical precedent cannot allow the Federal government to shirk a financial role any longer. For education, unlike bridges or garbage disposal units, cannot be used or misused by any one state...
...year is 1977, and an expanded U.S.S.R. has fallen under the domination of a vicious Oriental named Yang, who plots to destroy the U.S.A. by geological warfare. Yang's plan is to melt the earth's icecaps with atomic energy. The water released will raise the level of the sea, flooding most of the earth except the Central Asian plateau, Yang's stronghold...
Complained the London Economist, which hadn't been interrupted before since 1843: "So the Economist, the Spectator and the New Statesman must be treated on a dead level with the astrologists, the pornographers and the trashmongers. The daily organ of the licensed victuallers can continue to appear; we must stop ... if the Government's prohibition is maintained, we shall have no alternative next week but to obey it and to concede to Mr. Shinwell what Goring could not achieve...
According to Robert Ulich, professor of Education, who was present at the Princeton Conference, Heller's appeal for support of the "operational level" of aid to foreign universities received "extremely favorable" response...