Word: equal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boston. Although the latter was not represented by all of its first string men, the defeat showed that this year St. Paul's has a very capable team. The first three men, F. F. Symington, A. W. Stewart, and H. N. Rawlins are particularly strong players, very nearly equal in ability...
...Wells, who has spoken oracularly on so many subjects that he no doubt feels privileged to say what he likes in the present case. His reports from the first have been highly opinionated and often unfair; he has shown an exaggerated sympathy for Germany and Russia, with an equal antipathy toward France. The London Daily Mail, for which he was writing, has come to the conclusion that it it is both bad policy, and poor taste to publish such sentiments, and has told him plainly that his articles are non grata...
...Heflin rose to speak on the New berry case, and there was a rush to the cloak room. Even those who remained committed the discourtesy of whispering among themselves. Whereupon Mr. Heflin waxed wroth and denounced the whisperers in no uncertain terms. Then followed an orgy of name-calling equal only to that of the day before. Needless to say, these remarks were "expunged from the record". And another expunging followed on Wednesday when some ill-considered remarks of Senator Reed's on the visage of Mr. Volstead vanished before the eraser...
Such unwarranted favoritism must impress those Phi Beta Kappa men to whom the principle of equal opportunity appeals with the feeling that disparity of this kind is both gross and unfair. Surely, they say, an intellectual society ought not to be subjugated to such humiliation nor be so undervalued. Fortunately, as the hero of this incident points out, for every problem there is a solution. In order that Phi Beta Kappa may enjoy equally with other organizations the respect of the law, let the first forty policemen of every city be elected to membership. Immediately a brotherly affection will spring...
Instead of seeking for an analogy in flies, why did he not look for it among the "weaklings" of the armies engaged in the great war? Has so large a proportion of the human race ever before had to endure so much hardship or exhibited an equal capacity for endurance? Did the soldiers of Alexander or Caesar have to meet anything like the rigors of trench warfare? If the robust health of the American Expeditionary Force is a measure of the effects of pampering and hospitalization, the human race might profit from a more general application of such debilitating influences...