Word: levels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...generation ago, colleges taught students facts; today they are trying to teach them how to hunt for facts. The students, presumably eager to learn the technique of study, annually pay millions of dollars to American colleges in an effort to raise themselves above the level of the older generation. The road to learning runs through Widener, not the Brattle Square Post Office. The gentlemen in New York would do well to confine themselves to metropolitan areas. Men at Harvard often wish they did not have so much work to do, but they would be the first to see the absurdity...
...contributions to this issue are all of an acceptable level which is something, perhaps, that could not be said of earlier numbers. Is it evident that the Guardian in growing out of the diaper stage is probably finding an increasing supply of manuscripts in its doorsteps from which to choose? It is unfortunate that one cannot record the same progress in all respects...
...stratosphere flying and its obstacles. He emphasized the fact that it was possible by means of superchargers, blowers designed to send compressed air to the engine, to fly higher than 100,000 feet, although at a height of 60,000 feet air density is one-eight that of sea level...
...Alcatraz Island," the second feature, we have an absorbing social problem not hitherto brought to the attention of the public. It paints the difficulties of a racketeer (John Lithel) in bringing up his daughter (Mary Maguire) on the correct intellectual and cultural level. He finally sends her to Europe with his mistress, and she returns in time to fall in love with the District Attorney and free her father from "the Rock." This picture is not guaranteed...
Tamazunchale is some 500 feet about sea level. To reach Mexico City on a vast plateau 8000 feet in the air, it is necessary to close one's eyes and drive madly around the side of precipitous mountain slopes. Of course characteristic of the Mexican temperament is the fact that the mountain road was begun from Tamazunchale and from Mexico City, the center portion, and by far the most harrowing portion, being left to luck and the last. Aside from the fact that the road is unpaved, that great boulders are apt to crash down from above on the slightest...