Word: equal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Though never noted for artistic sensibilities, President Coolidge was more than equal to a Founder's Day celebration and international painting exhibit at Carnegie Institute, the occasion for his Pittsburgh visit. Diplomats from France, Italy, Belgium, Rumania, Austria & Holland sat by and heard the history of Pittsburgh interpreted as a characteristic evolution of U. S. culture. Beginning 150 years ago with the pioneers who "could face facts," "grapple with realities" and subdue savages; touching briefly on George Washington, the University of Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh's present bank clearances (9.198 billions) ; recounting with admiration the rise of an alien...
...words can be perfect synonyms. A "whack" is a blow delivered much in the same way as a "thwack," but it presupposes a certain capable nonchalance in the deliverer. A thwack is a blow delivered more clumsily, though with equal vigor, by some person not accustomed to administering physical violences; as a timid schoolboy, an enraged English butler, any octogenarian...
Towards Negroes, the A. F. of L. remained unchanged, refusing again to vote Negroes an equal status with whites in U. S. unions...
...Present production costs in the Grozny oil fields are lower than before the War, while in the Baku fields these costs are about equal to those of 1913. The output of gasoline from crude oil has been increased from the pre-War figure of 0.4% to over 0.7%. Deterding also mentions the Soviet coal industry. It will be interesting to learn that coal production for the year just ended was 39% higher than the figure given by Deterding...
Holy Cross, though outnumbered, possessed an individual star whose equal has perhaps never been seen on the historic Soldiers Field turf. Harvard had its pistol, but the Crusader leader had the Harvard stands on its feet yelling for more of his gravitational magic. The fight might well have been declared a draw by music critics, Harvard's volume equalling the single-handed figuratively, of course--performance of the Crusader's drum major...