Word: equal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young society woman of 18, whose name was deleted by the Hungarian censor, challenged to a duel with sabres a young man of equal rank, who had befouled her name while in his cups. When they faced each other accompanied by seconds, in a wood near Budapest, he stripped to the waist, according to the Hungarian dueling code, and demanded that she do likewise. When she refused he laughed, departed. Vexed, she wept...
Gifts. As the Premier prepared to set out on a tour of the interior, Hassuna Pasha, the native Mayor of Tripoli, presented him with a superb gold writing service and a beautiful Arabian sword. Said he: "Signor Mussolini, few mortals can equal your skill with both the pen and the sword. Our gift is accordingly symbolic...
...Confusing to the minds of many was the $300,000 lease brokerage fee paid jointly to Benjamin L. Winchell of St. Louis and Samuel Pryor of Manhattan. Mr. Pryor put his $150,000 split into the Owenoke Corporation, of which he, Percy Rockefeller and Frederick B. Adams are equal partners, to complete (according to Percy Rockefeller's testimony) his capital share thereof. The implication was that Percy Rockefeller, who had recommended the leasing, had personally profited by $50,000, the partnership third of Mr. Pryor's brokerage fee. "But only in a sense," hearers of the admission were good enough...
...confronted with one of these problems most embarrassing to a vagabond. Before me rise three hills all at an equal distance. Which shall I ascend? In other words, shall. I at 11 o'clock go to Sever 35 to hear Dr. Maynadier in English 29 speak on George Meredith; shall I turn my steps to the Fogg Museum to listen to Mr. Leonard Opdyche in Fine Arts 1d on Correggio and the early Venetian school, which of all schools of Italian painting I am most partial to, or shall I hear Professor Haskins in History 8 speak at Harvard...
Whereas Dr. Hugh has concentrated on professional problems (wrote Modern Urology, 1918), Dr. Richard C. has deployed into many fields. He is an indefatigable worker. With equal keenness he handles his classes, toys in his laboratory with his microscope, writes in his study his esteemed professional treatises or hurries off his popular volumes of dicta,? addresses professional or lay bodies, earns an excellent living...