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Word: equal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...basketball team is much better than last year's. While Fesler was hesitant in prophecying a more successful league season for his charges than the quintet that a year ago had six victories against as many setbacks, it is almost certain that this year's team will more than equal that record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/24/1938 | See Source »

When the uneasy Polish nobility finally gave Rasonski his chance to see what kind of a deal he could make with Napoleon, he got the old Count's permission to marry Dzjunka. She was unexpectedly docile, having decided with equal desperation to accompany him to Paris and there make her getaway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Slippery Pole | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...Open Door" as applied to China means that (1 all nations shall have equal tradings rights in China, 2 emigration to China from other nations may not be stopped, 3 Chinese may not be excluded from this country as they were under the exclusion act prior to the World War, 4 China must grant the great powers extraterritorial rights in her country, 5 the Chinese Government must keep trade routes open between the coast and the interior and protect foreign business concerns using those routes from bandit attacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Current Affairs Test, Feb. 21, 1938 | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...court as they were on paper before the current campaign opened last December. With Captain John O'Brien, Tom Macioce, Ed Anderson, Cliff Wolf, and Stan Leggett returning as experienced veterans, it was expected that Coach Paul Mooney would have a club whose calibre would at least equal that of the 1936 undefeated League champion...

Author: By Edwin P. Kaufmann, SPORTS EDITOR, THE COLUMBIA SPECTATOR | Title: Flashy Columbia Five Holds Slight Hope of Win Tonight | 2/19/1938 | See Source »

Keynoting, Premier Dr. Negrin promised to issue food cards to everyone in Leftist Spain to ensure equal nourishment for all; he thanked the Soviet Union and Mexico for their aid; flayed Hitler and Mussolini; promised to be "merciless with profiteers"; advocated "banking controlled by the Government" and climaxed: "the war may last six months, or a year or two, but however long it lasts our economic strength will not be exhausted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: 30 Miles Out | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

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