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Word: levelling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most useful activity possible for men and nations in 1948 was the prevention of World War III. Last week the rate of that activity took a spurt. If it could be increased about ten times and maintained at that higher level for about 15 years, the chances of avoiding World War III would be good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: The Chances of World War III | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

...mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone and speaker as well as chorus and a full Stravinsky-sized orchestra. The effort was definitely worthwhile. There may be arguments about the style and form of the "Oedipus Rex," but there surely can be none about its interest to listeners on almost any level of musical training...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boston Symphony and the Glee Club | 3/13/1948 | See Source »

...successful, presumably the U.T. will offer other foreign films from time to time. It has a great variety to draw on from the numbers that reach New York but can never fit into Boston's under-theatered schedule, and the entertainment would certainly be on a much higher level than the customary U.T. feature. J.A.D...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'To Live in Peace'...Recent Italian Film Import | 3/12/1948 | See Source »

...documentary film, taken bodily from the files of the U.S. Narcotics Bureau. What is more, it carries through it a Moral Principle, hidden by the plot, to be sure, as cleverly as the smuggled opium is hidden from Customs, but which still serves to elevate the movie above the level of common melodrama...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'To the Ends of the Earth'...Dick Powell Thriller | 3/12/1948 | See Source »

...Communist Party in the United States, I sincerely regret the death of Jan Masaryk. I regard him as representing the best of the bourgeois tradition, but I think that his death by no means signifies darkness in the future for Czechoslovakia, but rather progress toward a new and higher level of existence. Geoffrey White...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CP Member on Masaryk's Death | 3/11/1948 | See Source »

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