Word: levels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Landing Ship-Tank) has bow doors and beaching ramp, elevators to lift tanks or other cargo from the hold to the main level. Length: 328 feet (World War II models) or 382 feet (postwar models...
...find and mobilization sure to squeeze the labor market tighter, U.S. employers were determined to hang on to their workers by upping their wages. Besides, both labor and management knew Harry Truman had the power to freeze wages any day, and neither wanted to be frozen below the prevailing level...
...liberals on the ground that they are too tolerant. They do not, said he, denounce or report the "obvious misdeeds of acquaintances, relatives, schoolmates, intimate friends, loved ones . . ." Furthermore, the liberal Communist is to be condemned for "forgetting he is a Communist Party member and lowering himself to the level of the ordinary folk...
...murky fog, the troop train ground to a stop. Out of the early morning roared the Pennsylvania's crack twin diesel Spirit of St. Louis. The first unit of the diesel hurled the rear coach of the troop train in the air, sheared the second car to floor level, hurtled into a creek. The second unit derailed a third car. Two cars of the Spirit of St. Louis plunged from the track...
...five to ten points wide). In this zone, blood pressure would be looked on with suspicion and carefully rechecked, but still with no conclusion that the patient had "high" or "low" blood pressure. Such a worrisome diagnosis would not be made, they suggest, until there was a clearly abnormal level, e.g., low blood pressure for a man of 20 would be 98/56 or less, while high blood pressure would be 150/95 or more. At 40, low would begin at 102/60, and high would begin at 165/100. (For younger women the norms are slightly lower; for older women, some are slightly...