Word: levelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was evidence, too, that the teaching profession had also benefited. Said the California Council: "[The experiment] suggests a sound and readily adaptable means of raising the general level of instruction...
...these years they were better housed, fed and clothed than before or since. But the experts found: ¶Despite glowing Soviet reports of enormous industrial gains, it was not until the second year of the second Five-Year Plan (1934) that Soviet national income returned to its 1913 level. And by 1938 it was only 50% more than it had been in. 1913 (in the same period U.S. national income more than doubled). ¶In 1940, the Soviet flow of goods and services was equal in value to 32.5 billion U.S. dollars. (U.S. flow was $100 billion...
Said Willys-Overland's Chairman-President James D. Mooney: "People cannot and will not pay premium prices for automobiles. When a certain level is reached, business will begin to fade out rapidly. ... I believe the showdown will come much sooner than expected...
Unable to compete on this favored level, undergraduates must rely on the circulation desk to supply those books not included on reading room shelves. With overflowing stalls and misplaced books defeating an already poor circulation system, well over forty percent of the books requested cannot be delivered. A more effective method for recalling stall caches and the enforcement of stack regulations regarding misplaced texts is necessary if Widener hopes to give undergraduates any degree of satisfaction...
...Saturday duties present a small variation from his daily fare. Last year he watched Varsity games from the Stadium roof where he could supplement by telephone communication Dick Harlow's limited view at ground level on the players' bench. This fall he makes varsity substitutions, crouching on the sidelines in front of the bench and giving players the final world before they go into the game. Harlow leaves him a free hand in this matter following a general overall briefing before the game and precluding unforeseen difficulties...