Word: equal
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...bill would not merge all U.S. fighting arms into a single fighting service, as Patterson had originally hoped. But it would coordinate the equal departments of Army, Navy and the new, autonomous Air Forces under a single, Cabinet-rank Secretary of National Security* (TIME, Jan. 27). The Navy would keep control of its own air forces (roughly parallel to Britain's Fleet Air Arm); the Marine Corps would keep its traditional alliance with the Navy. It was victory enough for Bob Patterson...
Movie-Mad. Nevertheless, in 1922, Hedda divorced DeWolf, who objected to her movie career and resented her equal earning power ($1,000 a week). For Hedda was there when the flickers were born. She knew Hollywood in 1915, when it was a village near Los Angeles. She knew Sam Goldwyn when his name was Goldfish, and played in several of his pictures in the Biograph studio on New Jersey's Palisades...
...economic forces which forced Germany to accept Hitler. And the moral to the tale is that we must "permit a free and democratic Germany to emerge from the present chaos, in which this industrious and talented people may work and enjoy the fruits of their labors on an equal basis with other nations...
...CRIMSON doesn't want its presses smashed when it prints the kind of editorial it did. And it is not the privilege of crypto-Communists like RW, TW, WW, and AdB to give the Bill such an interpretation when it suits their fancy. All parties are to have an equal right before the law, and private persons are not to take over the police function at any time. Every citizen has a great duty to defend orderly process and the law as it stands, changing the law at will as his ideas about his society changes. This is very simple...
...learned enough spelling, arithmetic, and reading just by "doing." The carefully neutral Westwood Hills Press decided to find out. The paper picked 81 graduates of Miss Seeds's school and 81 kids from the regular public schools of Westwood Hills, all of them about 13, and with equal I.Q.s (about 112). Then the same tests were given to both groups. Miss Seeds's students did as well as the others, if not better, in almost every subject-even on the non-progressives' home grounds (reading, arithmetic). Said Miss Seeds: "It was a great victory. Besides, our children...