Word: levels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disease and consider essentially harmful and opposed to life may be changes in terms of adaptation which enable an organ or an organism not to die but to live, even though as a result of such changes the organ or the individual has to live at a lower level of physiological effectiveness. Such changes, therefore, become a mechanism of defense and impart resistance of an acquired nature...
...inches deep in the lake gravel floor was found the buried skeleton of an infant. The bones were very immature. Beside the skeleton lay a sharp bone 'dagger.' At this level also were found some very small projectile points, possibly dart heads and knives, scrapers and bone awls. . . . There can be no question that these people preceded by several thousand years the earliest Basket Makers...
...year, for instance, the National Union almost succeeded in allying itself with the politically bankrupt farmer-labor party in the Middle West, and this shot-gun wedding which the national leaders tried to put over on the rest of the member organizations was only averted by the stern and level-headed refusal of the Harvard group to violate its platform pledge given its members which promises not to engage in any partisan political action...
According to Prosecutor Chaffetz, white-crested Mr. Arnott arranged that the indicted group of companies, which already controlled about 85% of the oil business in ten Middle Western States, should raise and fix the whole price level in the area by buying gasoline at artificially high prices from specified independent refiners who came to be called "dancing partners." But Secretary Ickes in 1934, month after he urged oilmen to undertake pool buying under NRA, wrote as follows to Mr. Arnott: "It has been brought to my attention that the market for gasoline and other petroleum products has recently been disturbed...
...legends of Gene Fowler's newspaper life, his bawdy ballads, crotchets and Hollywood adventures, have put his career on the same picturesque level as the subjects of his antic literary works (Shoe the Wild Mare, The Great Mouthpiece, Timber Line). In Salute to Yesterday, his first novel in six years, Author Fowler legend for legend backs his own career well into the shade. A frankly sentimental salute to the brave past, evolving around the doings of a Denver die-hard pioneer, the yarn is calculated to send readers into gales of merriment and reduce them to beery tears. Cinema...