Word: levelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...result, said the South & West, the Northeast had prospered at their expense. With only 16% of the U.S. land area, the East had 55% of the nation's workers, 76% of the manufacturing. Its average income ran 20% above the national level...
...point out to [her] that "Spartan Wives" are learning, not at the college level (as she recommends) but on the my-life-my-belly level, about science (is baby really sick enough to need a doctor? We dine on oatmeal for a week if she is), philosophy (some way must be found to cope with trouble and frustration . . .), economics (obviously), and sociology (living in a factory-hand or trailer-camp community is more enlightening than any text...
Relief is promised for leg-weary undergraduate patrons of Widener Library, as entrances on two levels and a sunken ground floor will bring stair-climbing at the new building down to a minimum. The top floor of the Undergraduate Library will be as close to the yard level as the entrance of Widener...
...advocates of UMT have implicitly rejected the United Nations, and, for both selfish and presumably sincere reasons, have decided on a race in training men that is in many ways more dangerous than an armaments race. But any real security must be on the international level, through UN agreements outlawing conscription and establishing an international police force. For immediate needs, the Army ought to be made more decent to attract enough volunteers...
...presumably this profit motive that makes Artist Caldwell write fiction that is never above the intelligence-level of the most stunted book buyer. There Was a Time is packed to the boards with the kind of hatred of people and of the world that is often felt by the most normal man. But it is always balanced by Author Caldwell's cautious and frequent lip service to such equally human aspirations as love of humanity, tolerance and faith...