Word: levelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steady? How does he talk, how does he live, and how does he act?' ". . . The sage whose mind is unruffled in suffering, whose desire is not to rouse by enjoyment, who is without attachment to anger or fear-take him to be one who stands at that lofty level. "He, who wherever he goes, is attached to no person and to no place by ties of flesh; who accepts good and evil alike, neither welcoming the one nor shrinking from the other-take him to be one who is merged in the infinite...
...wartime we [shared], under the Hyde Park Agreement, the things needed to keep the production of both countries at the highest level. It worked, and made no small contribution to victory. If this . . . was good in war-good for both countries and good for our allies-why should we not with profit continue the same principle . . . indefinitely...
...objective level, he doesn't believe that there are any Communist employees in the University. And on the subjective level, he believes that his academic opponents have misinterpreted the bill...
...situation which had provoked the strikes was, at least in part, the fault of the Germans. Much of the food that could raise the workers' diet above its present semi-starvation level was either hoarded by German farmers or sold on the black market. Until the farmers met their food quotas, workers in Western Germany would go hungry. Last week, an emergency session of the Bizonal Economic Council (the highest German-run agency in the U.S.-British zone) passed a law to pry the food from the farm leaders. Henceforth, farmers and food handlers who failed to report...
Against normal performance, the market had been sinking ever since earnings had started to rise sharply (see chart). Earnings on the Dow-Jones industrial stocks in 1947 had matched the 1929 level. Yet the average price was only slightly more than half as high. Investors had good reason to shy away from war babies and those that had never made money except in boom times. But, by prices alone, no one could tell last week which were war-and boom-babies, and which were likely to be consistent performers...