Word: levelness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mellon added: "It must be borne in mind that this country is now on a high level of prosperity. . . . Estimates of receipts for internal revenue are principally affected by changes in the industrial prosperity of the country. Estimates based on a continuation of prosperous conditions would exceed actual receipts if a change were made in the conditions, since the change must be downward...
...called, patched stone. When these patched stones are exposed to the weather, the mending material usually deteriorates and lets in the water, and in a very short time the stone is broken up. Defects of this kind, when near the ground, are discovered but when on such a high level ordinary inspection does not disclose them...
With these supplies he is now on his 400-mile journey to the field. He expects to reach there in less than two months. At the field there should be good sledding over level country since there is no thaw until June. Before that time comes he must send back his dogs and some of his men. The remaining members will divide into two parties...
...their De Haviland plane. But their real object was to test two new devices for blind flight, which-allowing pilots to keep their course without reference to land marks -will permit them to fly high above such storms as caused Pearson's death. One device is a lateral level indicator., showing whether the plane is flying on a level keel or not, even when there is no horizon or land to refer to. A pendulum or a bubble level will not correctly indicate a true vertical line, when subject to the air disturbances a plane must inevitably meet...
...Dutch settlement" in the suburbs of Chicago. It is called High Prairie; its inhabitants are truck farmers; it is dreary enough to make Gopher Prairie look like a corner at Oxford Circus. While there she marries Pervus Dejong, impecunious farmer. Immediately she finds herself being dragged down to the level of High Prairie life...