Word: levelness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...matter of outlining new worlds, however, Dean Gauss cannot compare with that midwife of future ages, H. G. Wells; nor as a defender of contemporary youth with such an ally of progress as Judge Lindsey. There is only this to be said for the dean, that he is level headed and has no ax to grind...
...regional pacts," such as the Locarno Treaties (TIME, Nov. 2, 1925). The Disarmament Commission also adjourned, but not until the British Delegate, Lord Cushendun, had made a significant pronouncement. He, a sturdy Ulster patriot, declared: "The empire has reduced our army and navy, voluntarily, to the lowest possible level consistent with safety. ... We have stripped off our clothes and have nothing else to take...
...Washington a "fair" tennis player (TIME, Nov. 14). If you mean a fellow who does not say "OUT" every time a ball lands within five feet of the baseline, a fellow who remembers the score when he is losing, a fellow who, in other words is "on the level," that is O. K. But maybe you just meant to say " a pretty rotten tennis player." This is something different. I got a laugh because I don't think you knew which one you meant. Which is this boy, poor but honest, or just pretty poor. If so, how poor...
Harvard's chances of scoring through Yale's powerful line do not appear very good but there are other ways to score. With Harvard's mental attitude at the right level and provided Captain Pratt's lineman play hard, charging, determined football, I look for a closely contested battle, with Yale on the winning side, but as I have indicated before, with the Crimson given a slim fighting chance to eke out a narrow victory...
...college curriculum, it is nevertheless true that these men had a definite object in view and they persevered until they got it. Their display of initiative was spectacular, receiving much approbation from enthusiastic supporters of Indiana's athletics, and a corresponding amount of censure from the more level-headed ones who questioned the wisdom of sacrificing three or four days of classes for one football game. In either case, the students were brought into the limelight, more so, perhaps, than their actions merited, since similar exhibitions of initiative in the regular scheduled work of the university are daily passed over...