Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...mountain climbing party which will soon assault Kanchenjunga. Himalayan peak never scaled by man. The monastery (itself three weeks by trek from the nearest white men at Darjeeling, India) was their last stop ping point before establishing their camp on Kanchenjunga's base, some three miles above sea level...
...educating the proletariat: ". . . every novel, poem and play can justify itself in the eyes of the Russian workers only if its author can demonstrate that it fits into the general cultural aims of the Soviet Union." These aims are fairly well known. Generally, they are: "... to raise the cultural level of the entire population and to create the foundations of a Communist culture, as opposed to Capitalist culture." U. S. readers who think vaguely of Tolstoi and Dostoievski as timelessly typical of Russian literature will be disillusioned by this book. When Tolstoi died in 1910. Lenin wrote that "prerevolutionary Russia...
This country's mania for stock speculation seems to have subsided for the time being at least. The stuation at present with money extremely cheap and security prices staying at about the same level would seem to indicate that the speculative element is going to wait for actual improvement in business conditions before giving any substantial support to the market...
...best spot on the bill from the attitude of pure entertainment is the two-reel comedy "Blotto", the quintessence of which is entirely Laurel and Hardy. Under the direction of James Parrot, these slapstickers have raised the art of pie-slinging to a level surpassing everybody but, and equalling Monsieur Chaplin. The gags and plot are worse than mediocre but thanks to two exquisitely mobile faces Laurel and Hardy have their audience rolling about floors and tearing the distinctive features off armchairs...
...objection has been raised to the effect that, in playing such a game. Virginia would be lowering herself, to the level of commercialism in athletics, to a certain extent, and thus to a resultant over-doing of the game. In one breath, the statement frequently is made that we want athletics for all--intramural athletics--and in the next breath, we hear that the University should keep away from Baltimore, Washington, and Richmond because to have teams play in such places would not be exactly in keeping with our purely amateur outlook and our love of the game...