Word: equal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...horrible old man;" between the two there is an alternating current of abuse. Edna Best who plays Elsie Hilary is superior to Ina Claire in that she can deliver an epigram without tying her lips into a cupid's-bow knot; in some other respects she is her equal. The High Road is flawlessly cast and flawlessly acted...
...opposite pole of attraction, to which an equal number of extremists are inexorably drawn each year, is the outside activity. Excepting only athletics, outside activities have been enjoying a steady decline in health at Harvard during the past two years. Favor has turned to restricted outside activity, concentrated on one or at most two lines of endeavor. The activities themselves have benefited by a purge of triflers, and in managership competitions of the socially ambitions. The belief has gained strength that the by-products of study, mysterious as they are in origin, are worth more than the uncertain experience...
Therefore the Government considers it indispensable to reform our statutes in such a way that railway progress equal to that in other countries may be made in Mexico...
...intelligent solution of the liquor question probably lies in the exclusion of highly alcoholic liquors and the judicious distribution of light wines and beers through Federal dispensaries, thus maintaining an equal degree of temperance in the public interest and throughout the whole nation...
Where then was Joffre, the jovial, the well beloved? Good "Papa" Joffre announced through his onetime aide-decamp, Colonel Fadry, that, at the age of 76, he did not feel equal to a two-mile walk. The end of the walk was the Crypt of Honor at the famed Hotel des Invalides, near the great, domed, imperial tomb of THE CORSICAN...