Word: levels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Walsh snorted, without disclosing details: "It is almost unbelievable that a political election could reach such a low level! . . . The American people would be shocked!" Senator Sheppard said in advance that the campaign looked so bad it pointed "sharply toward an election contest in the U. S. Senate, regardless of which group's candidate triumphs...
Last week Archeologist Gordon Loud, a veteran digger of 37 who now commands the Oriental Institute's Megiddo Expedition, was back in Chicago with news that he had penetrated the site down to bedrock, through 20 culture levels dating back to 3,500 B. C. Beneath the oldest level was a stone age cave containing flint instruments and bones. At the 19th level the excavators found a flagged paving in which drawings of horned animals and men had been cut. At the 18th level was a stone fortification wall 15 feet high and 24 feet wide, which indicated that...
...events, with tea served on the terrace, concerts played in an adjoining room, and summer visitors exchanging greetings in the gallery. Last week summer shows, in full swing from Southhampton, L. I. to Ogunquit, Me., surprised critics with their variety, the number of first-rate artists exhibiting, the high level of the work exhibited...
Holding no television broadcasting license. Educator-Entrepreneur Evans carries his pictures from M. I. T.'s second-story studio to its street-level showroom by wire. Amateur talent on the first show included Boston's Mayor Maurice Joseph Tobin. Professional performers will be hired only if the box office take is large enough to pay salaries. President Evans does not expect his theatre to survive Boston's first curiosity to see television pictures. Said he: "I've always practiced the reduction of ideas to practice...
...full capacity, the U. S. economic problem would be solved. The industrialist reluctant to cut prices as a means to this end might take a leaf from the farmer's book. Unable to limit his production so quickly, the farmer lets his output seek its own price level...