Word: levels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Moody of Texas are going to do their "dead level best" to live in the executive mansion on a salary of $4,000 a year-according to Mrs. Moody, who is young and pretty...
Well limbed. His Imperial Highness stands 5 ft. 7 in. in his stockings. His complexion is a light olive tan. His features are regular, his eyes dark, level and un-slanting. He has climbed more mountain peaks than any other Alpinist of royal or imperial blood. He is an all 'round sportsman with a keen interest in baseball. His attire, when he landed from the Majestic, was faultless to the point of being inconspicuous: a derby hat, black coat, black suit, black tie and a correct white mourning shirt with narrow black stripes. Yet neither shopgirls nor stenographers yearned...
...TIME, Dec. 13, (p. 20, ART), you gave a list of the largest buildings in the United States. I would like to say that here, right here in Cincinnati, is a building, namely the Union Central Life Insurance Building, which is 34 stories and 495 feet above street level. It belongs in the list more than the Straus, Tribune or Wrigley Buildings as it tops the tallest by at least 20 feet. Please apologize for this omission. You know how one roots for his home town...
...armaments the U. S. Navy had fallen below Great Britain and Japan. It now approaches the level of France and Italy. According to the 5-5-3 agreement, it should be the equal of Great Britain. Its chief defect is a scarcity of modern light cruisers and of submarines in commission...
...pyramid which was rather a sensation in his day, of Nebuchadnezzar when he ordered the hanging gardens. There will be no awful monument to a heath on god atop the Larkin tower, and no pleasure palace for a buried king. Nearly a quarter of a mile above the level of the street, business men will put down the ticker tape with a sigh, light a cigar and go to sleep; stenographers will take the opportunity to powder the insatiable nose; and secretaries, peering softly through the door, will tell visitors, "he's in conference." Over their heads Girl Scouts from...