Word: equal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Balstemdrigne-shofwintpluasjof Wrandvaistplondqesky-crufemgeish. Ruble Trouble. In Manhattan, Mrs. Tatiana Jemtchoujnikov sued to recover $24,600 on a loan of 50,000 Tsarist rubles her husband made in 1918 to Jacques Zolotnitzky, who offered to settle for one-millionth of a Soviet ruble. His argument: one 1944 ruble is equal to 50,000,000,000 1918 rubles. Never a Bridesmaid. In Detroit, Mrs. Korene Stankowich, 35, arrested by the FBI for cashing four different soldiers' allotment checks, confessed she had mar ried 15 men in the last 18 years. Explained Mrs. Stankowich (the name...
...listed three important and co-equal phases through which popular music has passed; he referred first to "ragtime," then to "jazz," and finally to "swing." Mr. Copland defined ragtime as the primitive outgrowth of the Negro spiritual set to march time. "Jazz," he said, is a differently accented ragtime with more opportunity for improvisation and "swing" is a somewhat arranged and toned down jazz. He traced the origin of jazz and swing to the changing tastes of the public who, he said, tire of the previous style after a while...
...student of "Le Jazz Hot," it is evident that swing is no more the equal brother of jazz and ragtime than "The Adventures of Ellery Queen" is the equal of the mystery stories, of Edgar Allen Poe. Poe conceived and executed his work with artistic style and taste, while the modern pulp writers often are obviously writing for five cents a word. In the same vein, it is true that "Mairzy Doats" is typical of a certain group of Americans in the twentieth century, and as such it may some day find its melody or spirit embodied in the serious...
...small Vatican flag has two equal vertical stripes, yellow and white, carries the papal insignia. Until 1860 the Vatican had a small armed navy, used chiefly against pirates...
...rearward thrust of high-speed gases drives the vehicle forward. This is in accord with Newton's law that every action has an equal and opposite reaction or recoil...