Word: equal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Peabody Museum at Harvard was the first anthropological museum in America. Because of its age and the energy and ability of its early directors, its collection contains great numbers of specimens which are unique and could not be duplicated today. The only other museum of almost equal age, which consequently had much the same possibilities, the National Museum in Washington, having unfortunately suffered from a disastrous fire which destroyed the larger part of its collections, the Peabody Museum stands today in a class by itself among the anthropological museums of the country, and is certainly one of the great museums...
...Senate agrees with them that the cruiser is essential for the protection of U. S. commerce, that the Navy's lack of cruisers should be rectified. Extremists in this group, making a fetish of navies, are rankled by British and Japanese cruiser preponderance. They demand a navy equal to any in the world, consider possible wars with England or Japan...
...German chemical patents (explosives, dyestuffs, drugs) which the Government had confiscated as a War retaliation, of licensing U. S. producing chemists to use those patents on a royalty basis. The Chemical Foundation has changed the U. S. Chemical industry from a whining, rickety infant to a closemouthed, lustry brute, equal to Germany's and England's. For ten years the brute has paid the Foundation its millions of royalties, and for ten years the Foundation has given those millions away-to scientific institutions and universities, for publishing magazines and books,* for student prizes. But Foundation intents and promises...
...jazz band to play in London?three and a half years ago?was the relatively restrained Brooke Johns Orchestra. Dauntlessly, however, "Conductor Abie" sailed from Manhattan. The Ministry of Labor agreed that "Abie's Own" may perform at a London night club, on condition that the proprietor hire an equal number of authentic British musicians...
...college teams in dealing with the theory and practice of many sports will be offered for the first time by the Harvard Summer School this year. Hitherto the Department of Physical Education has offered such courses on a more limited scale, but this season will give fully rounded courses equal to those offered by other schools...