Word: levelness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Altimeter: An instrument for measuring elevation of aircraft above a given plane (usually sea level...
...designed the first open coil dynamo, following this with an arc lamp, the "ring clutch," in which the carbon is clutched by a ring attached to an armature which automatically keeps the light steady. This not only solved a long standing difficulty but brought the price to street level. Three years later (1879) the Public Square in Cleveland glowed under the first public arc lights...
...Under this Administration the country has been lifted from the depths of a great depression to a level of prosperity. Economy has been raised to the dignity of a principle of government...
...discussing the environment offered by the nursery school, Miss Johnson insiders the child's activities and materials, his relation to other children and to adults, and his introduction to language and rhythm. She explains now the nursery goes about its attempt to scale civilization down to the child level in its behavior demands and to open up wider opportunities for alive exploration than an adult world call afford...
...primarily interested in teaching, the college needs, for the time will come we shall find that, by avoiding the responsibility of the actual task of imparting learning in order to devote more time to meticulously unravelling the unnecessary, the professors will have brought this education to the level of a puppet show. The college needs men who realize that teaching is a task requiring coordination of body, mind, and soul in actual labor,--a task, demanding inspiring personality, for which reading systems and so called self educational methods are poor substitutes. If the college stands primarily for education...