Word: levels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...acre, trillions to the county. Government scientists and reporters crunched around the countryside in automobiles, killing hundreds of 'hoppers at every turn of a wheel. Against some houses and barns the insects were piled in drifts a yard deep. Newsreel cameramen put their lenses at ground level for close-ups which made the horde look like a fantastic invasion from another planet...
...Streltsov had built chambers in which he tested the ability of various animals to live at low pressures, translatable into equivalent heights above sea level. Best performers were guinea pigs and turtles, which got along at the equivalent of 13,000 metres (about 43,000 ft.). Dogs and cats could not hang on long above 12,000 metres, carrier pigeons collapsed at 7,000. Newborn rats and mice, however, which were given no chance to get used to air of normal pressure, survived amazingly in air of .002 of sea level pressure, which corresponds to an altitude of 30 miles...
...Aviation Show, he and his assistant, Engineer James Heistand, deliberately took off from Kansas City in the worst possible weather, climbed to 36,000 ft. where they were still not on top of the bad weather. Nor could Tommy reach the top, thus exploding the "overweather" theory for that level at any rate. Flying in sleet without sighting land for seven hours, he finally reached the coast, began to "mush" down through for a landing. His aerial was iced and he could not get a fix on the beam at Newark where the ceiling was very low and where...
...such fair dealing has Texas Tycoon Jesse Jones (who weighs 230 lb. and stands six foot three) won the respect alike of lovers and haters of the New Deal. In Washington he has been noted for two peculiarities, one literal, the other figurative: his flat feet and his level head. Last week at the time his article in Satevepost was doing a favor to Old Dealer Dawes, Jesse Jones was in Philadelphia, receiving an LL.D. from Temple University and doing a favor to the New Deal by expounding a practical man's reasons for supporting it. Said...
...least some small consolation to the several hundred members of the bulky Class of 1940 who tried unsuccessfully to squeeze their way into a House system already uncomfortably crowded except in the high-price level, is the announcement that an old frame building on Riverview Avenue will be added to Winthrop House. While not a very pretty looking dwelling at present, industrious yeomen from the Maintenance Department will attack it this summer, spruce up the interior, put in some plumbing, and spray onto the walls that etherial something which makes a House different from any other dwelling. Then...