Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Liberals are distinguished from the numberless others who would like an improved level of existence for our nation by their belief that such a goal con be attained only buy positive action of the part of the Federal Government. Economic life has become too complex and too impersonal for attempts at improvement by lesser agencies to be effective. The precise extent of governmental control over economic activities id a matter for dispute even among Liberals, but the median of their beliefs would probably lie close to mild Socialism, encompassing supervision of essential industry, utilities, and basic resources...
...first appearance before the student body of the College since his return from Prague, Douglass Cater '46 outlined the results of the Prague conference and pleaded for international cooperation on the student level at an open forum in the Lowell House Junior Common Room last night...
Coach James MacDonald spent another day with his soccer men yesterday trying to raise the morale of the squad from the depths of the defeat by Amherst last Saturday to a level high enough to match a potent Green eleven at Hanover this weekend...
Invisible Demon. The obstacle to higher speeds was "compressibility," that invisible, ravening demon formed in the air by the plane's own motion. Long before an airplane itself reaches the speed of sound (770 m.p.h. at 68° F. at sea level), the air, which is speeded up by passing over its surfaces, touches locally that critical velocity. When it does, a "standing sound wave" may set up such vibration that the plane flies to pieces...
...lard, National Biscuit Co., the nation's largest baker, closed its New York and Philadelphia plants. All other big bakers either cut production or planned to close. For want of hides and leather, shoe production next month would drop to about one-third of the first-quarter level, with many shutdowns of shoe factories in the offing. For want of animal extracts, insulin and streptomycin supplies dwindled toward a critical...