Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today may well be one of those days. The Big Red rolled into town yesterday morning with three powerful boatloads ready and willing to mar Harvard's home opener. At the Varsity level, Sanford's charges pose a formidable threat to an unblemished crew season...
After the war, the town was partly rebuilt. New people came from the countryside; the population rose toward the prewar level. Kalavryta still had its beautiful springs and its luminous mountain...
...gave his life in the underground conspiracy against the Nazis. Her blue eyes are hot with anger, and she is impatient with all this petty squabbling over package shipments and machine removals when all the world knows what is at stake: "I want to raise this debate to the level commensurate with the gravity of the crisis we face." She does so bluntly: "The people of Berlin are unwilling to surrender to the S.E.D. and the Communist claim for power . . . Our mind and will are firmly set on the goal of Germany as a free and constitutional state . . . We know...
...year exposure to Bill Pawley. The millionaire go-getter, who often invited 750 guests for cocktails, had shown Brazil how a jet-propelled American does business. At work and at play he had talked fast-Brazilians sometimes thought too fast-to sell his ideas. He wanted to raise the level of life of 47,000,000 Brazilians which could easily be done from Brazil's own resources. He wanted to open Brazil's potential oilfields to U.S. capital. He wanted to see Brazil's rickety transportation network expanded and made efficient. With realistic vision, he advocated settling...
...lush background for his party, Railroader Young had depended on Interior Decorator Dorothy Draper, who had spent more than a year getting Greenbrier ready. She had broken through large areas of white stucco walls and moved Greenbrier's lobby from the second floor to sub-ground level. In it she placed $4,000 worth of palms (to be replaced as needed) to give an outdoor effect. Elsewhere, she used some of her typical tricks. To make some of the cavernous rooms more cozy, she set up latticed, movable walls. A typical bedroom had sky-blue walls, Tunis-blue furniture...