Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Guggenheim Brothers work as a unit with majority vote ruling, Daniel is the recognized patriarch and is given the most credit for their expansion. He spread their interests to Alaska, Mexico, South America. Asia and Africa. The firm organized the Chile Copper Co., producing copper 9.500 ft. above sea level. In Chile, Daniel developed a new process for nitrate manufacture, and the firm has large holdings in this industry. For service in Belgian Congo, including metal and diamond mining, Daniel was made a Commander of the Order of the Crown of Belgium...
...judgment, then such a penalty as that handed out by the New Haven authorities, though harsh, may be justified in instances when actual damage to property or persons is involved. But one cannot be sure that any student body has reached the point where all of its members are level-headed and can remain uninfluenced by mob spirit under the circumstances that usually lead to college riots. There is a broad distinction between rioting with a definite destructive purpose in mind and occasional outbursts of misdirected energy, even though there be nothing whatever in the latter to justify them...
Whether one likes this unquestionably rather sordid type of entertainment or not, this picture has definitely set a new level in its particular field and seems to fulfill the promises of merit which its producers made...
...year ago, and an average of only 47,000,000 for the last ten years. Other crops have been bountiful; the new U. S. crop is germinating. Europe is buying in small quantities, and from Argentina and Russia. These factors have created a generally lower level; more specific causes were suggested as helping last week's downpour...
...impossible for the talkie to use the nuances and half-tones necessary to the effective presentation of a complex idea. The real trouble with the talkie is that to be successful it must appeal to the lowest level of intelligence. The dramatist can choose whatever level he pleases...