Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British say that their departure would bring the Moslem Hausa tribe down from the north to dominate the Ibos and Yorubas. (That the British have sometimes encouraged such dissension does not obviate the fact that fierce quarrels among the colonial peoples break out even where the British do their level best to create unity among native groups...
...months before Allied soldiers breached Festung Europa at Normandy, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt stubbornly argued over who would occupy the industry-rich Ruhr. After the invasion, Churchill's claim was reinforced by the top-level political and military decision to give Field Marshal Montgomery command of the sweep along the lowlands toward northeast Germany. Roosevelt finally yielded, let Churchill have the Ruhr...
...lost some 25,000,000 tons in all. The steel industry had lost more than 1,000,000 tons (enough to make 396,000 automobiles). Steel production was scheduled at 69.8% of capacity this week, but would take another two weeks to get back to its pre-strike level...
...course is not one in "remedial" reading, Perry emphasized, because there are few "visual difficulties" Involved. "The problem at college level is for the students to develop an aggressive and inquisitive attitude towant the reading matter and to develop reading as a study skill," he commented...
Post-war demand for education beyond the high school level, predicted the 53-year old University president, will be greater than ever before. "Advanced education is contagious," he said, and the younger brothers of veterans now swarming over the registers of the nation's colleges will want "to share likewise in advanced education...