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Word: levelness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Columbia has taken a fine book on slums and their crime, and run it through the Hollywood kettle until most of its guts have been boiled out. The residue is kept well out of the standard murder movie level, however, by an infallible combination: fine photography and Humphrey Bogart...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...dress in leaves, hunt with bow and arrows. The other four-fifths, touched by government, missionaries and modern industrialism, have found that civilization can be as ruthless as the man-eating tigers around their native villages. Cut off from their primitive tribal customs, most adibasis have sunk to the level of coolies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Kings of the Jungle | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...over a proposed report on religious liberties. Protesting against "the insidious pattern by which Communist and other totalitarian regimes are seeking to force the church into a position of subservience," the report also contained a surprise package. This was a call "for Protestants and Roman Catholics at the highest level of leadership" to join forces against the anti-church methods used by Communists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Churchmen & the Pact | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...Houses are not planning to deconvert next year, and will maintain their current level of one extra man for every two. Even counting on the enrollment drop, they can take less than half of the freshmen class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Houses Will Take Only 40 Percent of Yardlings | 3/19/1949 | See Source »

...they're not. Both teams have a record of 11 wins and 3 losses in their respective leagues. It's just because most of the Bellboys have had so much experience on the court in the last few years that they can face a tough opponent with almost professional level-headedness...

Author: By E. JOUR Otameal, | Title: Three Lowell Teams Hit Elis Today | 3/19/1949 | See Source »

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