Word: equal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great difficulty with the actual performance of these works was that the men frequently destroyed this masterly. Beethoven made the cello part the more important occasionally, made the two parts equal the rest of the time, and almost never put the piano into prominence. Unfortunately, Wednesday night the cello part was only occasionally equal to that of the piano and frequently less prominent...
...Maintenance of Labor's social services, and "a house, and a good house, for every family . . . How to achieve it? Set the private builder free . . ." ¶ Abolition of the House of Lords.* ¶ "Joint action" and "firm friendship" with the U.S., but "it must be friendship of equal partners...
...guiding economic policy. The Turkish .government operates power plants, railroads, ports, communications, sugar, salt and tobacco manufactories, oil, steel & coal enterprises ; it dominates shipping and banking. The bureaucrats have grandiose dreams of industrialization and self-sufficiency. They built a huge steel mill at Karabuk for $23 million-equal to the national education budget for one year. They are blueprinting airplane factories and plush government offices. But Turkey cannot yet keep pace with their plans...
This places the operation on a skill, rather than gambling, basis, and the pigeons show their appreciation by registering amazing reaction speeds, up to one-tenth of a second. This makes pigeon-speed "greater than that of apes and equal to humans...
...Pipe & a Pint. By mixing equal parts of glamour and inoffensive blandness, Lux Theater has won a weekly audience estimated at 30 million. The devotees have heard 500 top Hollywood stars broadcasting skillfully warmed-over movie scenarios. For the anniversary, statisticians reckoned that it all added up to 650 shows, 39,120 pages of script, 14,344 musical cues and 68,460 sound effects (including an imitation of a peacock's cry* by the late George Arliss...