Word: levels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other main fields are under consideration. One is the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence, including the Erie canal. This includes stabilizing the lake level, and is both a waterway and power project. A joint commission of the United States and Canada is working on plans and surveys. . . . The other is the Mississippi River system. This is almost entirely devoted to navigation. Work on the Ohio River will be completed in about three years. A modern channel connecting Chicago, New Orleans, Kansas City and Pittsburgh should be laid out and work on the tributaries prosecuted...
What is happening here? Is England on a cultural tobbogan sliding to the level designated for the United States; or has the lid come off when the pot started boiling, exposing the fact that the ingredients are much the same the world over? Perhaps the question will be debarred in the London papers, as an after-thought...
...written several articles from time to time: "The Church for Americans" in 1895. "The Crucial Race Question" in 1906. "The Level Plan for Church Union" in 1910 and "Communism and Christianism" in 1920. The latter article preceded his dismissal from office...
YEAR WAGE LEVEL WHOLESALE PRICES...
...mania, a menace not only to himself but also to the other players," Dr. Paton feels himself justified in condemning "football hysteria" as "a producer of both physical and mental deterioration." Under its influence, he maintains, the mental life of American universities is being "lowered to the dead level of mediocrity." The students are "required to do so much cheering in common that they begin to think alike and consequently to lose in initiative and freedom of thought." And on such grounds as these the Princeton scientist reaches the conclusion that in the European universities, despite their crippled condition, "there...