Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...gnarled shepherd's crook-so narrow that there are seven double greens with both outgoing and incoming pins-but the newcomer is often vaguely disappointed at his first view to find that it does not look particularly formidable. What the newcomer soon learns: 1) there is hardly a level lie on the course, and 2) the holes are defended by some of the most fiendish bunkers in existence...
Although I am definitely against the welfare state in any form, if government ownership [of] radio stations . . . can raise the American networks to the intellectual and cultural level of the BBC, then I would be the first to advocate such a measure...
With the greatest of ease, the bull market kept right on charging up last week. The Dow-Jones industrial average climbed 4.34 points in the best week's rise in over a month. At week's end the average hit a lofty 222.41, highest level in more than 19 years. With the tracks cleared by the end of the railroad strike, the rail average also highballed: it rose 1.40 to 56.96, its best showing in 18 months. The utility average registered an 18-year high...
...your go to the Harvard Archives on the fourth level of Lamont Library and take from the shelves the back issues of the Advocate, you will find that T. S. Eliot wrote fragile but rather meaningless verse for its pages, and Norman Mailer contributed stories whose characters were the crudest sort of obvious types. There is no telling where an undergraduate may go from those days when he's trying to find himself. Most of the writing in the Commencement Issue of the Advocate reflects some of the failings of this formative period, some of it shows promise...
Five years of back exams are now neatly piled along two walls of a room on Lamont Library's first level. Unless this reading period differs enormously from previous reading periods, within a week the back exams will be distributed on the floor of that room...