Word: levels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Auriol, attacked by enemies of their devaluation move, have been trying to convince the skeptical French public that they actually have obtained from Mr. Morgenthau and from British Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain a binding accord to keep the dollar, pound and franc all stabilized at their present level (TIME, Oct. 5). Cried M. Auriol: "Mr. Morgenthau has made the best answer both to the skeptics who called our original accord illusory and to men of bad intentions and bad faith who did not hesitate to sow anxiety in the public mind...
...Street was the jest that "the new kind of gold standard" is about as much like the gold standard as companionate marriage is like holy wedlock. What had actually been done was to make the dollar, pound and franc companionate currencies pegged from day to day at a common level, with Washington, London or Paris free on 24 hours' notice to pull the pegs...
...lens, is operated automatically by electricity. After the camera is set for the amount of overlap desired on successive pictures, the shutter clicks at regular intervals in the plane's flight. Coincidentally with each click a little subsidiary camera records on the negative the time, temperature, altitude, bubble level reading and identification number. Then a vacuum, holding the film firmly flat during exposure, is released, and the roll is wound for the next exposure...
...close they may come to it. There is one departure from the normal: Gene is not used to make the other fellow jealous, although he, just like the rest of us, thought that he was going to be. This show may be the money-eyed Miss Southern's level, but we have seen better things, and hope to see them again, from that vigorous, capable Mr. Raymond...
...wrong, however, in predicting, the necessary formation of a professional intercollegiate league. If professionalism is confessed to, eradicated, and standard eligibility rules are adopted, amateur football games can be played, Further, equally large crowds will be attracted as long as the teams are on a fairly even level...