Word: levelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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West Virginia's New River rose 30 feet above its normal level, swept scores of houses and other buildings into the Bluestone Dam basin. At Clarksburg, W.Va., the West Fork River rose to its highest stage since 1888. A 10-ft. levee collapsed at Crowder, Miss. The raging Duck River split the town of Columbia, Tenn. in half; Columbians were evacuated from their homes by the Red Cross and the National Guard...
...secondary school graduate, male or female, who wants to do college work over the vacation, can enter the School, Adams disclosed, "We are making special efforts to attract students from other top-rank colleges, which do not have summer schools, but courses will be strictly on the Harvard level...
...distinctly indoor flavor, for the only ice in the Waban province will be that which customarily dilutes the contents of tall glasses. Come spring or high water, however, Wellesleyites plan to cap their weekend tonight with three Snow Balls (dances to those who refuse to stoop to the level of such semantics), and the crowning of a King of the Carnival...
President Conant underscored the need for aid to public schools below the high school level, where many sections "do not have the resources to provide a satisfactory education...
Most important criticism or the examination system here will center, however, about its validity in finding the right level of grade for each student. By the time they have reached their Junior year most students have been forcibly made to realize that the premium on a majority of non-scientific final examinations is on ability to organize and to write clearly more than on quantity of factual knowledge or understanding of the material in a course...