Word: equal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fosdick mentioned the pitiful role our much-vaunted civilization has played in Christianizing the Far East. "We did not really recognize Japan as an equal," he said, "until she had slain her thousands in the Russo-Japanese War." Bringing matters a little nearer home, he mentioned the fact that Channing Pollock, writer of "The Fool" had declared that it took him three years to get the play accepted because the producers did not believe that the "public cared for that sort of thing...
Mussolini ponders a plan to form a National Industrial Federation, which would be composed of seven large corporations. The object of the proposal is to give equal rights to employers and employed in the management of industry, and so mollify the Red Shirts (Labor) at present under the protective wing of Gabriele d'Annunzio. The plan will be worked out "to benefit not only capital and labor, but industry and the State...
According to the CRIMSON census lately made, summer will scatter the undergraduates far and wide. More than one-half of the college intends to travel. Of this number the percentage going West and the percentage going abroad is very nearly equal. In general, going West has no formidable connotation, but means a ranch or a pack-trip with an unconscious study of the art of Nature; while a trip abroad means steamers and hotels, with a very conscious study...
...recent competition for the design of the projected Chicago Tribune Building and now on exhibition in Robinson Hall, Professor J. J. Haffner first outlined the requirements of the competition. He then proceeded to discuss the elements necessary for a successful design. Of these unity and character are of equal importance in producing the desired effect. In respect to the character of buildings Professor Haffner mentioned two modern types of architecture, the Gothic suggesting ideals and inspiration, and the solid type used in municipal buildings which gives an idea of utility and permanence...
...Wing who proposed that the Debating Union should support the entrance of the United States into the following four reservations suggested by Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes Hon. '10: (1) the Court shall have no compulsory jurisdiction over the United States; (2) the United States shall have an equal share in the selection of judges; (3) the United States shall pay its share in the maintenance cost of the Court; and (4) no amendment shall be made to the powers or constitution of the Court without the consent of the United States...