Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Conservatism is the grand old guard that brings the radical and the idealist back to a necessary compromise with the facts. The delicate balance between these opposing forces keeps history level-keeled, mankind level-headed. In his stand on the Prohibition question as well as in his condemnation of faddism in education, Mr. Taft shows himself to be a conservative, and a conservative of mighty calibre. His attack on new educational schemes and his plea for the old scholastic methods raise the serious question as to whether the swift pace of modern affairs has not tinted modern education with superficiality...
...engineers have reported that difficulty is encountered at that location because of the high water level of the Charles River. The soil has been found to be thick clay, however, and the builders feel that no trouble will be caused by a weak base...
Then finally, those of us who in college became interested in seeing the status of laborers rise and the policy of employers become more human are disgusted with the University's futile attempts to justify its miserly wages. Even if they are technically above the minimum level, still it was weeks after the lay-off, and after the announcements of the Wage Commission's decree and then of the reorganization at Widener that some bright person thought of this defense. But more important than the lateness of the excuse is the fact that it is simply not convincing. We expected...
...airports are thoroughly inadequate. For 25 miles around Manhattan, all the land is very nearly at sea level. To the east are the sand dunes of Long Island, to the west, the tidal mud marshes of New Jersey. Her airports are too far away, are all subject to fogs which render navigation impossible. (The seaplane base in New York harbor, while decreasing the distance to the centre of the city, will still be affected by fogs.) Because of fogs, U. S. airmail removed its original terminal from Curtiss Field, L. I., to Hadley Field, New Brunswick, N. J., a distance...
...patience in the bearing of it were prodigious and are strangely touching, like stories from the life of a saint. He learned almost nothing, and knew everything that might serve his ends. He was sickly, and bore the most incredible hardships with iron endurance. He sprang from the lowest level of society, and had the manners of a grandee and the epistolary style of a Machiavelli. He knew no enjoyment of life, a home meant nothing to him, his wants were as few as those of a dervish, yet he died of worry because he could not get the forty...