Word: equal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What they saw on the tennis courts was equal to what has been seen in top-notch white-folks' tournaments this summer. Through the efforts of the A. T. A. directors, who are eager to show the snooty U. S. L. T. A. that Negroes can be developed into high-grade tennists, the colored race-especially its intelligentsia-has become extraordinarily tennis-conscious. In Negro colleges tennis is a major sport, exceeded in popularity only by football (50% of the students play tennis). Wealthy Negroes like Chicago's "Mother" Seames, a 70-year-old, 200-lb. tennis enthusiast...
...diet: the politician just before an election should be allowed, at public expense, all the pork he wishes, and he should use plenty of applesauce, as that is the only commodity of which the supply can never equal the demand...
...being discriminated against ? Are not all TIME readers created equal? What is this Subscribers' Library of yours that a friend recently visited, and is still raving about? And why haven't I, too, been invited...
...Clerk Mullaney is still on the job and so is the force for which he bought Wright's ship. In celebrating August 2 as its 30th birthday, the U. S. Army Air Corps last week could boast, not only that it is now in process of becoming the equal of any nation's, but that it is already the daddy of them...
Beaked Alan Patrick Herbert, 48, England's quixotic M. P. for Oxford who crusades with equal fervor for good beer, sensible divorce laws and the King's English, broke a lance against the windmill of officialese. Said he, if Nelson's famed signal ("England expects every man to do his duty") were repeated today, it would read: "England anticipates that as regards the current emergency, personnel will face up to the issues and exercise appropriately the functions allocated to their respective occupation groups...