Word: levelness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...working with many of the largest corporations in the world, I imagined that I knew everything there was to know about condensed intelligence and lucidity. Your people add to my respect for the high level of professional integrity and skill in this country RAYMOND LOEWY New York City
...last week reconsidered their budget-busting generosity. By a 400,000 majority, they slapped down demagogic George McLain's Citizens' Committee for Old Age Pensions (TIME, Sept. 5) despite support of the plan by politically ambitious Jimmy Roosevelt. The new law will leave pensions at the increased level (average: $70.63 a month) which McLain pushed through a year ago, but will shave $65 million off the $200 million annual cost by boosting the retirement age from 63 back to 65. It will also make relatives who can afford it responsible for the old folks once more...
...definite changes in life; and those who do make hurried changes risk seeing their old habits come to the fore once again, still alive and as deep-rooted as ever." Those who want to read universal meanings into this couch-worn tale will have to do it at the level of amorality where only the Adrianas of the world can move with assurance...
...doing little jobs. When they were at one side of the ward, they needed something at the other. And there were so many nurses walking back and forth that I hardly saw the same one twice. And in the bathroom there was a pipe across the mirror at eye level...
...thinks Yale may sell all its 42,000 tickets and the 4,000 it got back from the H.A.A. too. But Yale's ticket selling has been about ten per cent below the normal level for this whole season, Perkins said...