Word: equal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Observers recalled remarks of J. Watson Webb, teammate who aided Milburn to beat Britain, that he was done with international polo. Observers noted that Malcolm Stevenson, No. 3 for U. S., is only a few years younger than veteran Milburn (47) and doubted that he can equal the attacks of younger players in 1930. Thomas Hitchcock Jr., 27, is left alone among available U. S. International veterans...
...done more to show that the pedestals of the great are sandstone rather than granite, no one has been more active in lowering the portraits of emperors and potentates so that the public may first gape and then conclude that man is created equal after all, than Dr. Emil Ludwig. Napoleon, Bismarck, William H. Lenin, Washington, Wilson and so forth have all been exhibited on the point of Dr. Ludwig's free-flowing pen, and the world has admired, marveled, and pondered a few historical inaccuracies...
Here Latins balk. They hark back to Liberty and Equality-Liberty to stage their own parlor revolutions if they choose. Equality with a Great Power which is simply not their equal...
Attendant upon the recent contingent gift of $50,000 by Edward S. Harness, to the Sargent Memorial Permanent Endowment Fund, the fortunes of the Arnold Arboretum have reached a critical stage. For Mr. Harness' generous offer will not be payable until the contributions of the country at large equal the amount of $460,000 already donated to the million dollar campaign by greater Boston. Much is at stake, however, during the next few weeks because of a full in the contributions which have been coming in from the nation-wide campaign, and it is incumbent not only upon the graduates...
...Penttila, representing Finland, has launched the javelin 213 feet. Sund, the Norwegian, has done 204 feet and Molles of Germany and Lindstrom from Sweden have also achieved something like 200 odd feet. America cannot equal these European marks. However, we have improved a great deal in the last few years and America has at least six men approaching the 200 foot mark...