Word: levelness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cost of living rose two points in August, making the index figure 73 above pre-War prices. This is the first increase since January, 1921, when the cost of living was 169 points above the pre-War level. Railwaymen will receive an extra shilling a week to offset the increase...
...which is made up more of ardent desires than of definite aims. To restore the joy of labor by repudiating "personal gain as an economic motive" thus eliminating a "mechanical, inhuman work-relationship" is the key-note of the campaign; and together with this, to develop rather than to level the individual. Whether the movement will reach a successful conclusion depends upon whether the movers are strong and the aim attainable...
...center of the diamond the clear height to the trusses is to be 42 feet. Outside the playing field are to be two tracks, each 12 feet wide, and having 12 laps to the mile with banks at the turns. One will be placed at the same level as the playing field and have a cinder surface. The other track is to be directly above with a wood floor suspended from the roof trusses. This track may be used as a spectators' gallery. Provision will also be made for jumping, hurdling, and shot-putting lanes...
...charge of Director Edwin B. Frost, is financed by William Wrigley, Jr. (chewing-gum man) with a gift of $5,000, and occupies sites on Santa Catalina Island (directly in the path of totality), which is owned by Mr. Wrigley. Oh a plateau 1,300 feet above sea-level an observatory equipped with elaborate telescopic and photographic apparatus has been erected."; The unique feature of the Yerkes enterprise is its use of moving picture machines for the first time to record an ellipse. The Yerkes Observatory, at Williams Bay, on Lake Geneva, Wis., is the astronomy department of the University...
...thing I see in the situation at present is the indication that the old antagonism between the North of Ireland and the South is dying out. . . . With Craig at the head of the Government in the North, and Cosgrave directing things in the Free State, Ireland has two able, level-headed men in charge of her destinies. " I hardly think that De Valera will be executed. . . . He is no longer the leader he was some time ago. His following fell off considerably and at present he has very few, outside of Mary MacSwiney and several other women agitators...