Word: equal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Byzantine logathete" and "malefactors of great wealth" in the most recent explosions of Charles G. Dawes. Mr. Dawes has lately been calling everyone who disagrees with him a "peewit plutogog". "Peewit" is merely a polite euphemism, but "plutogog" is evidently of sterner metal. It is obviously compounded of equal parts of "plutocrat" and "demagogue"--doubtless of the baser elements which these two words connote...
...Artagnan holds the front of the stage as a young blade who never refuses a passage at anms, as a mature fighting man whose wrist is steadier and whose judgement more sure, and as a veteran whose character has become nobler with his years and whose valor remains equal to any test. It must have been with a quick pulse beat that his admires learned that a statue is to be raised at Auch in Gascony to perpetuate the real as distinguished from the fictious d'Artagnan. It is naively said in the announcement of this important news that "Gascons...
...have been Gates, a substitute last year, and Baldwin, a star of last year's Freshman combination. As guards Princeton has two lettermen of known repute, Hills and Howard. The center berth is still very uncertain. Three candidates for the pivotal position, McMillan, Bartell, and Forrest, have almost equal chances for the final line...
...well as mental vigor. The president has recorded himself as among those who find a legitimate and happy union in the development of muscles as well as of brains in a college course. And again he touches upon a matter which student or non-student can find of equal concern. The loss of the race through lack of physical stamina of men who plan great works to carry them through to completion is, as he says, a convinceing argument. With a world-wide demand for leadership, it plainly behooves the world to do what it can to train its future...
...plans to start its season in about two weeks with competitions for stage, acting, Business, Publicity, and Art. The officers are at present reading plays and perusing French, German. Spanish and several English manuscripts preliminary to picking the play for production. They are seeking a play which will give equal and full opportunity in all departments...