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Word: equal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Green, Don Daughters, and Ken Booths would be standouts in any line, but they are not all-Americans. Frank Foley, Torby Macdonald, and Austie Harding are good runners, passers, and pass catchers, but they are not Clint Franks. Any one of them has an equal chance to steal the show in this or any other game...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: TOUGH CORNELL TEAM HEAVY FAVORITE OVER HARLOWMEN | 10/8/1938 | See Source »

...linemen who have been shaping up well in scrimmage. Tom Gardiner, a weighty six-footer, will see play Saturday. Along with Tom Broderick, he has been frequently used in the A lineup. Broderick, by the way, is the only squad member who can stand up to Miller as an equal. Broderick is a 217-pounder himself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hope of Future Varsity Grid Teams Meets Test as Yardlings Face Exeter | 10/7/1938 | See Source »

...schoolboy wore lace frill collars, a tunic and square-toed shoes, was considered peculiar by his mates. They were quite right. When he was hardly past 30, Maxwell invented electro-magnetic waves (e.g., wireless waves) out of his head, then proved mathematically that their speed must equal that of light. British physical scientists rank Maxwell second only to Isaac Newton. His immortal set of four equations, deemed a thing of beauty by scientific esthetes, is Exhibit A for apprentice theorists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fifth Director | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...William remembers that he watched his father and maternal grandfather send Australia's first wireless signals. With equal vividness he recalls the awe with which he regarded a piece of radium brought to Australia by Frederick Soddy, famed pioneer in the study of isotopes. When William was 18 his father returned to England to assume a professorship at Leeds. William graduated from Cambridge's Trinity College, started research work at Cavendish under Electron-Discoverer Thomson. About that time the elder Bragg showed his son some reports by Germany's Max von Laue. who was finding curious bright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fifth Director | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

...comprehend the purpose and place of each component part as they could not in the past. Another syllabus-baby, pretty enough to be carefully nurtured in Government 1 and adopted elsewhere, is the reprinting of excerpts from books which would otherwise have to be purchased. Less spectacular but of equal importance are other reorganizational steps concerning a change in reading material and a new order in the consideration of subject matter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOLLOWING F. D. R. | 10/1/1938 | See Source »

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