Word: equal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Beal got in bad with the Russian comrades by finding a worse situation in Soviet Russia. Said he: "I found just the conditions against which I was fighting over here. The union officials . . . ate well, but the workers were hungry and they were in rags. I never saw the equal of that misery in this country...
...Cards. While the galleries were growing bored with the Great Debate, the public was also shifting in opinion. In its November issue FORTUNE'S Survey found: 1) that U. S. sentiment favoring equal treatment of all belligerents had increased by from 54% in September to 67% in October; 2) that approval of the President's foreign policy had declined from 69.2 to 56.2%; 3) that belief in Germany's chances of winning the war had increased from 8.3 to 15.3%; 4) that 84.3% of U. S. citizens want the Allies to win (83.1% in September...
Cost of the plan, by Bigelow figuring: $60,000,000 a year.* Tax provisions in the Plan would fix that, said he. The Plan called for a State income tax equal to one-fourth the Federal levy, a new 2% tax on land valuations of more than $20,000 an acre. So vaguely drawn was this financing feature that critics' estimates of how much could be raised varied by millions. Bigelow himself refused to be drawn into the argument, went frighteningly on about his business...
...impartial observer must first look behind the catchwords of war propagandists. In the World War these men, reaching the peak of their inventiveness, hit upon the phrase, "war to end war." Judging by the quality of the slogans, the present conflict cannot yet equal the holiness of the last one. But still, the parallel between now and the days of 1914-1917 is close. Then too, leaders of church and university such as President Eliot of Harvard and Bishop Manning, boldly backed Britain and France. America thought after the war that this would never happen again, but the familiar utterances...
...years, there is small chance that they will prescribe it as such this winter. For sulfapyridine must be handled as carefully as dynamite. It often gives patients nausea, headaches, "nerves," even delirium. Further, the fact that the drug lays low Hemophili is no guarantee that it will act with equal success against the combined forces of the six or seven other less common organisms which also occur...