Word: equal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wish to be contemptuous of the Spirit of God." Of his central doctrinal position he wrote: "Predestination we call the eternal decree of God by which He has determined with Himself what He would have to become of every man. For they are not all created in an equal condition; but eternal life is foreordained for some and eternal damnation for others...
Numbers? The priest answered with a blend of military discretion and brass-hat vanity: "We have them in every important city in the north-Milan, Genoa, Turin. There we are roughly equal with the enemy. They outnumber us in Sesto San Giovanni. We outnumber them 3 to 1 at Varese . . . by 4 to 1 at Bergamo and 2 to 1 at Brescia. . . ." Milan's A.C. was not the only Catholic resistance group. In Rome (and elsewhere) Catholic youths organized and marched...
...Nelson's day, Christie's pocketed 7½% of the purchase price, a standard fee recently upped to 10%. Christie's percentages on the sale of pictures, silver, jewelry, furniture, china have brought the house a prosperity equal to its fame. In 1941, the old King Street auction room was bombed out. In recent months the house has conducted its business rent-free in Lord Spencer's 18th Century house in St. James's Place. As overhead is low, the seven partners make a gross profit of over ?100,000 on an annual gross...
...Robert M. Hutchins . . . the world's foremost educator [who] has worked untiringly for peace and international understanding, is ... coordinator of nuclear research . . . and Chancellor of the University of Chicago. No other man can equal his record of selflessness and humanitarianism...
Lorca's Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias, translated in this volume, has no equal among modern elegies for directness in the vision of death and for symphonic magnificence of form. Mejias was a torero, an Andalusian and friend of Lorca's, who died after a goring...