Word: levels
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Stanley Salmen, secretary of the Bureau of Supervisors, reported that of 405 enrolled last year, 63 per cent had improved their grades, 24 per cent remained at the same scholastic level when they were falling behind, while only 13 per cent showed no progress...
...Four men "resumed their sport of mountain climbing." One, who had formerly taken 45 minutes to shuffle two-thirds of a level mile, now climbed to a height of 7,000 feet...
President Roosevelt had topped a day of New York barnstorming with his Madison Square Garden speech. Down to Pennsylvania Station hurried the Presidential party. President Roosevelt was taken to the train level by a freight elevator. Some 40 newsmen and photographers, held up at the station door, were rescued and passed through police lines by Secret Service operators. Steve Early got through one police line by showing his credentials with their engraved golden Presidential eagle. Before he could get to the train itself he was stopped by a police sergeant, flanked by one Irish and one Negro cop. They were...
...mental capacities. Small differences in education had not affected this equality, but large differences did. (Dr. Newman nevertheless believes that mental growth is bounded by heredity's limitations. "With a good education a poorly endowed person can improve his ability to a moderate degree but cannot reach the level of a potentially able but poorly educated person...
...ground. There is only one way to do this job. That is by fiat. ..." William Trufant Foster was just as gloomy, told hardwaremen: "I was on the Consumers' Advisory Board of the NRA and found it was window dressing. . . . The Government can't control the price level and stop the upward spiral." But unlike Johnson, he concluded the Government should keep hands...