Word: equal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University did little bidding for championship honors until comparatively recently. In the last 20 years, however, the Crimson has carried off supreme honors in the East six times, a number equal to Yale's during the same period, and twice as great as Princeton...
...consider the proposal concretely, two facts stand out. In the first place, we recognize a definite ratio between the navies of Great Britain, the United States and Japan, and do not pretend that our navy must equal or surpass any other. This is a necessary expedient if the plan is to be acceptable to all, yet it clearly does not endanger our safety. Secondly, the plan calls for actual reduction as well as limitation, which is essential if the program is to be of more than temporary value...
China's Door is supposed to be open to all. Japan does not need to ask for it. Is there any power denying Japan's right to equal opportunity for legitimate economic enterprises in China...
...Shantung the Ambassador says: "Japan promised China that she would withdraw her forces and return the Kiaochow territory to her: and she also offered to share with China, on an absolutely fair and equal footing in substance as well as in name, that section of the German railway which has come to her hands in consequence...
This argument is much the same as though a foreign power, having occupied the State of California should express its willingness to "return" the political sovereignty over that State but should ask merely the city of San Francisco and to "share" on "an absolutely fair and equal footing" the Union Pacific Railway...