Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Levittown, Upper Level...
Last week, at 76, much-loved Apirana Ngata died. In his last days he had had the satisfaction of knowing that the Maori birth rate had risen to a level above that of New Zealand whites. Sir Apirana had contributed, fathering ten children...
...available at the college library," thus providing "a splendid opportunity for you to make deprecating remarks about the provincialism and superficiality of the library and its lack of service to real scholars." Furthermore, a professor can do wonders for his prestige by occasionally pointing out "that the general educational level has fallen off lamentably since the days when you were a student...
Editor Tuttle's Fishing, a tuna-sized condensation of the whale-sized Fisherman's Encyclopedia, will not make the fish's lot any easier. But it should be as welcome to the nation's fishermen as a fast riffle on a mountain stream. Like command-level planners marking out a country for conquest, the 30 fly-wise, smooth-casting experts who helped to put Fishing together have methodically divided up their subject under such topics as "Game Fishes," "Where To Fish," and "When and How to Fish"-by fly-casting, trolling or spinning; in lakes, offshore...
...reaction that knocks the industrial average down as much as one-third of the gain. This was just about what last week's loss amounted to. Thus, barring too much bad news, many traders thought that the market would now find a firm footing around the current level. But whether it would start up again depended less upon earnings and economic facts than upon the psychological building up of confidence again in the bull market...