Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Library ascessions brought the total number of volumes and pamphlets in the University's collection to 4,159,606. The number of books borrowed from the College Library for home use has increased more than 60 per cent over the level five years ago, and 115 per cent over that of ten years ago, Mr. Metcalf reported. Last year, 239,161 volumes were borrowed for outside...
Last week, as it has been for nearly three months, the U. S. price of copper was stable at around 12? a pound. It was the lowest level at which U. S. copper producers have ever been sold out. Reason for their moderation at the banquet table is one of the major phenomena of U. S. national unity-a shotgun wedding between the Defense Commission and big-time coppermen. Cooperating with Commissioners Henderson (prices) and Stettinius (materials), coppermen had accepted the New Deal program on prices-i.e., kept them down. But the remarkable extent of their cooperation became evident...
...modern world is filled with leaders who came from nowhere. What powers may or should be entrusted to leaders, and what the rules, regulations, conventions and understandings should be in a Democratic society is a problem for which a high level of sophistication and discrimination is required. The European solution seen in Naziism and Fascism is not an answer at all, but an avoidance or postponement of the answer. Despotism is no advance over the centuries of ancient tyranny...
...steering committee stated, "We must regard both President Conant's declaration and the projected war rally at Harvard as trial balloons testing the tractability of the American people to a new level in the war drive. Our answer to this is a united and militant demonstration that we will...
Smith's Dean Marjorie Hope Nicolson: "It seems to me that such an educational policy . . . would reduce all of our colleges to a general level...