Word: equal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sunspot cycle is connected with all sorts of things. Measurements of the growth rings of Arizona trees reveal that they grew faster during sunspot peaks, and such things as Canadian rabbits, Atlantic salmon and meningitis cases in the United States have all been found to go through cycles roughly equal in length to the sunspot cycle. Even in the stock market has been connected with sunspots. High and lows for both occurred in 1928, 1933, 1937, 1946, and 1958, but to say the least, it would be hard to prove any connection between them...
...anonymous donor stipulated that the entire amount of the gift be spent on awards to freshmen and sophomores in the Classes of '63 and '64. Consequently, $15,000 to $20,000 will be spent on the incoming freshman class next fall, and an equal amount on both the freshman and sophomore classes the following year...
...closer examination, however, the superficiality of this analysis becomes apparent; its incorrectness stems from the ambiguity of definition caused by two genres, both called "Westerns," one of which has been relegated mainly to television, the other of which is being produced in equal quantity by contemporary Hollywood. This second species, of which Bad Day is an example, can roughly be described as some combination of the High Noon plot, and Shane ethos, and a gimmick...
...Only Tactful." As soon as Greek and Turk reached agreement in Zurich, the Foreign Ministers of the two countries flew off to sell it in London. ("It would seem only tactful to inform the British government," purred Greece's Evangelos Averoff-Tossizza.) With equal promptness, Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd summoned to London Dr. Fazil Kuchuk, leader of the Turkish Cypriot community, and swart-bearded Archbishop Makarios, whom the British exiled from Cyprus three years ago on charges of encouraging violence. This week the prelate whom the British press called a terrorist will sit down with Selwyn...
Theologian Niebuhr could not wholly discount Barth's "above-the-battle Christian witness." since "East and West alike are in equal condemnation by the real gospel." Yet the price of this attitude can be "moral irrelevance"-flawed by such asides as Barth's sneer at "praying away" Communism because God's answer might be American "fleshpots." Chided Niebuhr: "The dilemma is so deep that I would prefer to let the eminent theologian stew in it for a while, at least until he realizes that he is not the only prophet of the Lord." Barth's attitude...