Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...instance, did the undemocratic display of starched laundry, of respectable citizenry, of distinguished faculty able citizenry, of distinguished faculty bring to the students? Obviously, by all the simplest canons of good taste, the whole house should, to achieve its avowed objects, have a unity of dress and eating level...
...leather lounges, listen to an orchestra, sip luxuriantly. Adjoining wings will contain hot and cold baths, mud baths, sun baths. There will be theatres, concert halls, gymnasiums, a hospital. The 1,100 acres of the park will be laid out in a series of walks medically graded from easy, level paths for patients with acute heart trouble to active, alpine scrambles for convalescents...
...that by using other gases they could get other colors-argon & mercury vapor for blue, the same combination in a yellow tube for green, carbon dioxide for white. The gases are confined in the tubes at low pressures (5 to 10 millimetres, compared to 760 millimetres in the sea-level atmosphere). The gases are made to glow by an alternating electric current flowing through them. Because of the penetrating quality of the infra-red rays given off, neon lamps are used as fog beacons, airfield lights...
...come to the "Subway Express", a well-constructed mystery which maintains a high level of suspense through three acts without once leaving the subway car with which the first scene opens. The melodrama proved sufficiently real to carry the play successfully through a long season in New York, and, with Boston's peculiar penchant for supporting the mystery drama (as witness, the "Ghost Train"), the "Subway Express" may be expected to be with us for many weeks...
Founded on very modest beginnings some twenty-two years ago, the Graduate School of Business Administration has today reached a position on a level with the other professional schools. Few are the progressive business men now who still maintain that the only training for business is acquired at a tender age with a broom on an office, or a factory floor. Business training approaching the status of legal training, is more and more becoming recognized as a great asset toward eventual success...