Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...found myself on my feet for the first time in eight weeks, and they gave beneath me and I fell flat on my face, half in and half out of the saloon. My life belt was under my chair and I put it on from ground level...
Congressman. In 1906 Cordell Hull announced for the Fourth District Congressional seat and won election. He stayed in Congress, as Representative and Senator, 14 years, generally pounding along the single track of "free trade." By 1919 he was calling for world economic conferences to level trade barriers. Tossed out in 1920 by the Harding landslide, his-services to the party had been such that he was made Democratic National Committee Chairman as a compliment...
...mile above sea level, Lanchow lies in a cup surrounded by mountains at the point where the Yellow River intercepts the old desert route from Turkestan to Peking. Inside its mud walls and high gates is found a desert melting pot of Mongols, Turks, Tibetans, Manchus. Moslems who have long thrived on the city's far-flung trade. At Lanchow, Bactrian camels dump full caravan loads that have been hauled 1,500 miles from the Turkestan-Siberian railhead in Kazakistan. By camelback are brought dates from Turkestan, raisins and apricots from Turfan...
...worst period of history the world has known," he says, "and the job is to keep explaining why, why, why without being a Jeremiah." So Swing tells what's what simply, calmly, right, with no flash-flashes, no calamitous crescendos, no special hallmark of his own except a level, almost hushed "Good night...