Word: levelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Economic Crisis. For crisis had become general. There was scarcely a level of human activity, scarcely a corner of the world unaffected by it. There was the crisis in food. Crops had been bad almost everywhere except Russia. The specter of hunger in winter haunted Western Europe and much of Asia. There was the crisis of production, which was in part a crisis of war's destruction. But it was essentially a crisis of the will to work-a crisis from which the U.S. was scarcely more free than Europe...
...less profound level, Harvard will reflect the nationwide spurt of interest in social and sporting activities. Publications, literary and otherwise, should enjoy a banner year. The football team appears headed for one of its most successful seasons in several years, and the announcement of a new seating plan by the H.A.A. should increase the enjoyment of the spectators...
...would be presumptuous to compare in magnitude the problems facing Harvard with those confronting the nation. But their difference is of degree rather than of kind. At neither level is the process of reconversion complete. Neither has reached a stable postwar pattern, And both require the same type of far-sighted, constructive thinking to assure that the new version will be better than...
...Mikkola's standards, last year's Varsity wound ul, considerably below Dean's List, winning four and losing five including the Yale meet. They had hill trouble. On the flat they ran like greyhounds, only to collapse at the mere sight of an upgrade. Having to practice on the level University riverbank path for lack of transportation elsewhere was thought to be the cause...
...hard look at the always meager Soviet crop statistics belied the bright hope. At the present level of rationing, Soviet citizens annually eat 37,152,500 tons of grain. An end of rationing might increase consumption by half as much again. Best estimates put this year's crop at 43,500,000 tons, which would still not be enough for so large an increase...