Word: equal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Great wars come when both sides believe they are more or less equal, and when each thinks he has a good chance of victory. No such conditions of equality would be established if the Soviet Government and their Communist devotees were to make a separate organization of their own. Indeed, the two great systems might even begin to be polite with one another and speak again in the measured language of diplomacy...
...equal, if not greater, concern to the Soviet General Staff, however, is their belief that the Americans have found a means of denaturing gasoline or rendering it useless by atomic bombing when the oilfields are located near the sea-which is the case with most Soviet oilfields, particularly those around Baku. If the Baku deposits were rendered useless by A-bombing of the sea nearby, there could be no three-dimensional warfare, for this, of course, involves tremendous consumption of gasoline...
...what promises to be a bitterly contested ballot, two major issues hinge on the election of nine men to the City Council. "Plan E," a system for Cambridge managerial government, is up for reaffirmation. Praised and condemned with equal vehemence by rival factions, the plan has been operating during the past two years on a slim majority in the council and must rise or fall in the coming election...
Pete Fuller, Varsity wrestling captain, represents the only other Crimson Olympic hope who can be justified six months ahead of time. Both a boxer and a wrestler, Fuller intends to tryout for the Olympic team on both squads and stands about an equal chance of making either one. As a fighter Fuller has lost only one fight, a close decision to national AAU champ, Willie Clemmons, two weeks ago in the Garden, while winning 26 other fights, 21 by knockouts. Clemmons plans to turn pro the first of next year, but Fuller may fight him in a return match toward...
...Varsity didn't get its four touchdowns or even enough points to equal three. But neither did the Scarlet and White tally thrice...