Word: equal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undergraduates, and no replies have yet been received from either graduate students or members of the faculty. Nevertheless, in view of the fact that almost $4000 of the total $5000 is expected from the college alone, the present showing is exceedingly discouraging, and in order that the 'University may equal the gifts of other American colleges, a far more generous response is necessary to the appeal of destitute students abroad...
...assumption will be that the U. S. and a European country of equal strength have for some time been under strained relations. For fear of precipitating war, the American Government has not ordered its Pacific Fleet into the Atlantic. Suddenly, however, the foreign fleet appears in the middle Atlantic. The Pacific Fleet is ordered to the Atlantic via the Canal...
...reason for this move, according to Dr. Holzwarth, is that Thyssen's chemists have perfected a process to produce from lignite, the supply of which is almost inexhaustible, a fuel equal in efficiency to anthracite...
...team on the basis of its showing in practice is about the equal of last year's championship five at the corresponding period of development. There are no men on the squad with substantial preparatory school records, but there are two or three whom Coach Chase expects will eventually become college stars. With no stellar performers around whom to build, the development of the team will inevitably be slow. Tomorrow's contest will offer a real-test, and Coach Chase thinks that his team has an even chance...
...Duke said that the new British military aeronautical program contemplates the building of 52 new squadrons within the next five years, in order to place Britain on an equal "footing" with the European continental Powers. On the civil side, he said that the Government had decided to grant a subsidy totaling £1,000,000 extending over a period of ten years to the three leading commercial air companies (recently amalgamated) to enable them to maintain their air transportation services...