Word: equal
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Union had an hundred sustaining members, and an equal number of active and associate members in the University, it would escape from its present hand to-mouth condition and would be able greatly to extend its work. Both instructors and students have aided the Union generously with their money and their services, and this together with the appreciation the Union has met with among the working-men at Cambridgeport and others, augurs well for its success. In making this further appeal for financial aid, the Union relies on the continued generosity and good-will of the University public...
...equipment has been $500,000. This Mr. Drexel has paid with but one proviso - that everything used in construction and equipment should be the best procurable. In addition Mr. Drexel has given securities to the amount of a million. The result is that the edifice is without an equal in the world. The institute will take boys and girls and give them a practical education and one that is not too much like a specialist's. The pupils on leaving will be well equipped to begin life and will find no difficulty in obtaining a situation. A girl can learn...
Njal was fair of aspect and beardless, and so great a lawyer that his equal could not be found. Njal and Gunnar used in alternate years to entertain each other for friendship's sake. On such an occasion Hallgertha taunts Njal as being beardless, but Gunnar and Njal refuse to quarrel. Again Hallgertha makes a shameless jest on Njal, but the sturdy men remain true in their friendship...
...last number, and the great task of the orchestra, was Beethoven's seventh Symphony, which is popularly considered nearly, if not quite, the equal of the famous fifth. The symphony in all its motives is essentially a dance rhythm. It contains many beautiful passages for solo instruments, notably that for second horn in the next to the last movement and one for clarionet near the beginning. The orchestra did not seem in their best form in this last number; several careless mistakes marred the rendering of the programme from a critical standpoint, but these came in minor details so that...
...into the deeps of motive as some of her successors, and may not have been able to trace the influence of circumstance upon character with as unerring skill, yet within her range-a range too, that is much wider than her superficial readers suspect-she has no equal...