Word: levelness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Berliners noted that, despite high-level peace parleys, the local Russians were being their usual selves. But experts in Russian behavior professed to detect a slight softening around the edges...
...nebulousness exists on the frontiers of even the most advanced and rigorous of sciences,-- which we are not. Those of a "factual" inclination, therefore, have every right to suspect that they may be unhappy in any science. We do suggest, however, that even at our present relatively primitive level of theoretical development, our work is of some value to those interested in understanding important areas of behavior. Norman Birnbaum Michael Olmsted Teaching Fellows in Social Relations
...about twenty percent of the Freshman class, and to a large number of these men and others in the upperclass year, as far as our financial resources would permit. Since the war, of course, many undergraduates have been helped by the voterans' programs. Even so, to meet the level of costs it has been necessary for us to use some of our accumulated wartime surpluses in scholarship funds. These surpluses are now disappearing, and we must seek new sources of financial assistance if we are not to cut back substantially our numbers of Scholarship students...
Though they were not required to appear at spring practice, 25 of the 33 returning lettermen worked out three times a week under the coaching staff. Thanks to the high level of attendance. Valpey was able to state that the football team is now equal on both offensive and defensive fundamentals. Last fall, he explained, the team glittered on offensive but faltered when the other team had the ball...
...Brag, No Bluff. The unhappy fact, reported Professor Ernest D. Engel, a university student-placement adviser, is that "companies are not competing for the graduates." Guest Speaker George Corn-stock, Seattle neon-sign manufacturer, agreed. "Business conditions," said he, "are still at a high level." But industries "are tightening up . . . weeding out the misfits and incompetents . . . Job opportunities are still here, but you'll have to beat the bushes more efficiently and thoroughly than last year's graduates." Thereupon, he took up the problem of just what the efficient bushbeater should...