Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...account of Columbia Historian Carlton Hayes once falling from his lecture platform recalls a similar pratfall by famed Harvardian George Lyman Kittredge. Picking himself up from the floor with monumental dignity, he faced the tittering class and said: "This is the first time I have ever descended to the level of my students...
Skardon suggested lunch. Afterwards Fuchs said, "I have decided to answer your questions." Then Fuchs told Skardon how he had first met a Russian agent in 1942, had arranged recognition signals for future meetings with other agents (some Russian, some of "unknown nationality"), how he had methodically passed top-level atomic information to them for nearly seven years, in New York, Los Alamos and London...
...years since the ECAid began, Western Europe's industrial production (excluding Germany's) had risen to about 15% above the 1938 level. The dollar gap (the amount by which Europe's imports from the dollar area exceed her exports to it) had been narrowed from $8.5 billion in 1947 to an estimated $4.5 billion for 1950. Western Europe's economic strategists generally think that by 1952, when ECAid ends, they will have narrowed the gap further, and will have achieved a "manageable" economy...
...business activity continues at a high level...
Harman can be considered mainly on the grounds that he was high on the list of nominees two years ago when Valpey received the appointment. At Rutgers he has been able to inspire only fair teams to a consistently high level of play...