Word: levelling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...should not, in being proud of our flag and our national anthem, fall to the level of the rabble, which hoots, throws stones, and riots when some slight form is omitted, not from an exalted and generous conception of the meaning of their nation and a desire to preserve its honor, but simply because, being a rabble, it loves to hoot, throw stones, and riot...
...cannot take space for details regarding the services of ordinary competitive speculation. The manuals on economics explain them. Usually listed are the following: (1) Speculators create time values, carrying wheat over from a period of abundance to a period of scarcity; (2) Speculators level prices through the year, giving higher prices to farmers at harvest time, and lower prices to consumers later. (That this second point is not a matter of closet theory is abundantly shown by J. E. Pope, in an article in the Harvard Quarterly Journal of Economics of August, 1916). The speculator has failed...
More men are needed of this same cool, level-headed type. More training camps and more machines must be supplied. Our part is to supply men in such numbers that the slow wheels of a democratic government will be set in motion and the necessary equipment furnished. We must not fail to do our share in securing a powerful aviation corps if we hope to develop an army which will be effective on the battlefields of Europe...
...dependent on the way it is sung. "The Star Spangled Banner" is not a Chanson sans Paroles. Yet it would seem that many American citizens hold this opinion when a band or orchestra play it. The mumbling and lipcontortions which immediately ensue are not conducive to raising the level of one's feelings. Perhaps at no time in her history has our nation so needed all the latent patriotism that exists. Learning the words of our national hymn may be a valuable contribution in these critical times, and this bit of memory effort is not too much...
...suddenly and powerfully grown up. Another poem deserving special mention is Mr. Cowley's "Adventurer," which has rugged force and individuality. And finally, a strong ending to the Advocate is Mr. Willcox's "A Slave." That, like Mr. Damon's "Beauty," is a "real poem," well above the usual level of undergraduate publications. These two are the best pieces in the paper. If it were a matter of awarding a prize to one of them, the reviewer would be at a loss which to choose...