Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Between their sightseeing and night-seeing rounds the men told their story of survival. Seven men were flying in a C-47 during an 80-mile-per-hour blow, when both engines conked out. They pancaked on to a frozen plateau 7,700 feet above sea level and 40° below zero...
Results of the meteor research are also being correlated with V-2 rocket studies. Whipple expects further work to reveal new data on the upper level of the earth's atmosphere which figures in radio communications and the world's climate...
...could be cured in no other way. This does not mean, I hasten to add, that there is anything mentally wrong (in the ordinary sense) with a victim of Buerger's disease. Indeed, the disease is an expression of the repression of the emotional elements below the mental level...
...lent them all to Dieckmann, and he had brought them home with him to St. Louis. All in all, to the tiny band of Diderot scholars it was the greatest discovery ever. It would mean a complete new look at the man Dieckmann holds was certainly "on a level with Voltaire, Rousseau and Montesquieu." For students of the 18th Century, Dieckmann's find was beaten only by one other: the discovery of the Boswell Malahide papers (TIME, Nov. 29), which had also turned up forgotten in an ancient castle...
Despite these worldly cares, which the apostles had in their time too, the postwar seminarians are a quality lot. Said McCormick Vice President Kenneth G. Neigh: "The level is far higher than when I graduated here in 1936." Last week, in other Chicago seminaries, officials agreed with Neigh. The men's wartime experience has much to do with this, but even more important is the growing conviction among Protestant seminarians that religion goes far beyond mere social service...