Word: levelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every big industrial state, labor organized down to the ward and precinct level. The A.F.L. and President A. F. Whitney's Railroad Trainmen worked side by side with the lieutenants of C.I.O.'s Jack Kroll (who had predicted Harry Truman's election right along). They combed registration lists, personally called on unregistered voters...
...Army and Air Force Reserve Officers and the nearly 60 Naval Reserve Officers enrolled in the course are officers whose assignments in any future national emergency will be at the policy-making level...
...steep rise does not continue long. The death rate goes on dropping, as better medical services become available; but the birth rate drops too, and the curve of population increase levels off. In some cases the population actually declines. Nearly every industrialized nation has passed through these stages. Industrial Britain's population rate curve resembles strikingly the curve of industrial Japan (see map). Britain has reached, and Japan has almost reached, a stable population level...
Inasmuch as there is no soccer at Harvard on the intramural level, the challenge, sout by Timothy Dwight's soccer captain Sammel B. Gilpin, is addressed to anyone who is willing to organize a team that does not include, "Varsity players, professionals, and other ringers...
...present the squad is two or three deep at every position and has the material for winning teams for the next few years--if the men on the squad are kept our for wrestling. Only adequate recognition will maintain a high degree of competition on the Varsity level. Only the formation of a Jayvee schedule will keep the second and third strings out for practice...