Word: equal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chop-stroke for some time. The sort of men who make their bread and butter by betting on mud-horses* were ready to wager that it would bother him. It is true that Tilden has a chop-stroke which-although he does not often use it-is fully the equal of Johnson's; true also that he is equipped with a drive, service, volley, far superior to his opponent's. These things could not have prevented the unexpected from happening-had other causes made the unexpected inevitable. Since no such other causes cropped up, he took his match...
...fledged majesty, the Bursar's Office reasserts its commanding position over the life and destiny of the University. Massachusetts Hall, the patriarch of college buildings, is once more restored to usefulness, at once the oldest and newest, the crudest and the finest of dormitories. For its renovation equal thanks are due the fire which precipitated its restoration and President Lowell who sponsored...
...understood that M. Caillaux will offer equal terms to the U. S. He may well be in training if he expects to induce the U. S. experts to agree to a similar settlement...
...went to New York City. The seeming phenomena were popularly regarded as "a new revelation." In 1867, a learned U. S. judge estimated there were 10 million spiritualists in the U. S. (2/5 the population) ; more modest estimators said 3 million. Europeans, especially the English, embraced the movement with equal fervor. Late in life, Margaretta called a newspaper reporter, confessed that all the rappings she and Kate had caused to be heard, had been fraudulently perpetrated. Loose-jointed, she had created the sounds by loudly cracking, dislocating her knees and toes. Margaretta repeated this confession from many public stages. Bearing...
...last white tiddlewink at the cup, that his mother is looking on, spells ruin. But champions steal a vigor from exigency and use the electric air of crises as a wine. Perhaps the foremost exponent of this ability is William Tilden. No other personage engaged in sport has an equal sense of the dramatic...