Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could hear the faint humming sound of platitudes being rubbed together, of logs being rolled, of whitewash being slapped across naked raw spots of international dispute. "Her interpretation of the dance is certainly interesting. Now if we could find a way to bring it down to the level of popular understanding . . ." Or: "It might be beneficial for us to initiate plans for a study with a view to promoting more understanding . . ." Scarcely a speech failed to make a bow to UNESCO's objectives, "human rights and fundamental freedoms . . without distinction of race, sex, language or religion"; or to that...
...found in a main reading room. A poetry collection, an assortment of books on the history of Harvard, and the contents of the Farnsworth room will be transferred to special places. An additional 250,000 volumes from Widener and Houghton will eventually go to two stacks below the ground level in the new building...
...because of the "unfairness" in making section men teach class of inferior students, and in addition felt a "general hunch" that the whole thing would not work. Neither argument is particularly valid. Instructors in French and Spanish teach ability-grouped students all the way up from the "inferior" level; everybody seems quite happy about it. And it is somewhat silly to retain the present system on what Morrison admits is "just the simple feeling that a placement won't be any good." Instead of tinkering with its ubiquitous textbook, the revision committee would do far better to worry about...
...second layer of extra tenants poured into the Houses last year will be drained off in February, and the House population will return to the 50 percent-above-pre-war level established in 1946, Dean Watson announced yesterday...
...plan goes into effect, it will channel all student buying power in the Greater Boston area into certain affiliated stores. Organized buying, the committee pointed out, will cut prices and perhaps even set up an accepted low-level student rate...