Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...gain sea superiority in these waters. If that is seriously intended, I can only say we shall be delighted to offer Mussolini free, safeguarded passage through the Strait of Gibraltar. . . . There is general curiosity in the British Fleet to find out whether the Italians are up to the level they were in the last war or whether they have fallen...
...stopped offering more. Another push came from one of the U. S.'s weakest commodities, cotton; spot prices moved up 68 points, touched off a 100,000,000-yard buying move by cotton textile users fearful of a war famine and the possibility that Congress would raise the level of parity payments, up cotton's price. The battered grain markets, which had taken the worst beating during the panic, cast aside their month-old minimum price crutch, limped up a penny...
...Tumbled back to the pre-war level...
...piano teachers, soft-pedaled by Depression, are inching back toward their 1929 level, 1,500,000 pupils. Their ranks (an estimated 100,000) still include many a teacher of the sort that flourished a generation ago: dowdy females who had studied with a pupil of a pupil of Liszt, made their rounds with brief case under arm, eked out a living playing the organ in church. Women teachers still outnumber men, io-to-1, although men get thrice as many pupils. A good teacher today tends to be younger, better-trained than those of the previous generation. She gives about...
...into the sky and wondered whether the planes would come. When they did, the stolid, fascinated faces of those about to die watched them, with a hate which would not be broken even if the Japanese bombed until the whole 750-foot rock of Chungking was blasted to sea level...