Word: levels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...profits. And in this age of specialization, the transfer of either capital or labor to another occupation requires time and initiative precluding the possibility of a quick readjustment Quite the brightest spot in the whole situation is the unobtrusive announcement that the British birthrate has dropped toward the French level. If continued, this decline offers automatic insurance against similar troubles recurring in the next generation. But in the present must come the inevitable sacrifice accompanying a return to normal conditions...
...this is by way of extreme optimism. It is an open question whether it is at all valuable to the world to sweat that it may have the best that universal education and popular government have to offer. To many that best is a level of mediocrity; a level, moreover, to which brilliance must lower itself that dullness may prosper. These skeptics have their plausable case. Yet it may truly be said that society is confronted with a condition and not a theory. Democracy is in vogue; universal education in full swing. The improvements to be made must begin with...
...Another highly interesting and striking thing which is characteristic of China is the walled village, a number of which were encountered by the expedition. The towns are entirely surrounded by high and massive parapeted walls, the level line of which is broken particularly at the corners and over the gates by rather tall and heavily fortified towers...
...judgment necessary for a critic. Yet that Senior, to whom the only distinguishing mark of vacation has been the absence of the morning CRIMSON (advt.) from under the door, fortunately requires only the barest modicum of acumen to realize that "Merry Merry" is far above and beyond the humdrum level of musical comedy average. In this day of striving for the "bigger and better," it is something of a relief to discover a producer content to concentrate on the "better" at the expense of the "bigger." "Merry Merry" is of the intimate, clubby musical comedy genre made popular...
...What new low level did the franc attain...