Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Despite the influx of students who are going to Smith College "because it is the thing to do," the academic standard "has not been brought down to the intellectual level of Harvard and Yale...
...which have spread over the entire industry. In an attempt to eliminate overproduction by forcing independent operators to limit their output, Standard of California began cutting crude oil prices, sent great quantities of gasoline east as cheap as 6 cents a gallon in shipload lots. To meet this new level in the price of petroleum products, Standard of New Jersey through two subsidiaries* cut crude prices from 19? to 41? a barrel...
...their way through the nether tortuosities of Mammoth Cave, Kentucky. About a mile and a half from where Floyd Collins died (TIME, June 27. 1927), the two guides found a crystal "garden" with an area of 500 square feet, sparkling beneath their flashlights. The crystalline formation is low and level, apparently not formed by mineral-bearing water dripping from above, as is usually the case in limestone caves. It seems an underground erosion phenomenon. The "flowers" roughly resemble cabbages...
...Trustees of Columbia University have for two generations past done everything which the means at their disposal would permit to advance the academic career and to sustain it on a constantly higher level of opportunity and satisfaction. To strengthen the academic career and to make it still more attractive to young men and young women of good ability and fine ambition, means doing three distinct things, as well as doing them quickly and well...
...music is, of course, the backbone of the show and the book (which is by Harry B. Smith) does not come up to the same level. In between the musical numbers the pace lags. Of the airs the most familiar is "Gypsy Love Song", and it is sung by Philip Conyers, but unfortunately the part calls for a basso of extraordinary profundity and Mr. Conyers attempted to master it in a key so low that his voice lacked the power to bring out the full effect. If pitched a trifle higher the results would be considerably better. In this number...