Word: equaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...population." But he will want to strengthen local government in order to prevent his old enemy, the Federal power, from increasing every decade. To this end he would even work for a reduction in the number of States so that "new areas, fewer in number and more nearly equal in population" might constitute stronger units of local government...
...with being lonely neutrals and too smart to do anything about it. But something is going to break loose in Europe before long. Until then the Swedes can keep on saying: "If St. Paul and Satan both appeared simultaneously in Stockholm, they would be treated with equal politeness...
Ernest Cossart capably handles the weighty, but not meaty, part of Pusey, an omnipresent butler who is equal to everything but the attribute of paternal self-sacrifice imposed on him in the last scene. Joel Asheley's characterization of an actor in the red and a painter in the pink is over-boyish and too awkward. Vicki Cummings, as "Penny" not only wears exciting clothes well (her first appearance in a shimmering strapless almost brought down the first balcony) but carries off her gay grass-widow's role with a deft touch of cosmopolitan hauteur. Ellanora Reeves is attractively convincing...
...citizens most learned in Marxism and most concerned about its failures to date are Professors James Burnham and Sidney Hook, colleagues in philosophy at New York University. Now that Marxist efforts toward a society of free and equal men seem to have been sidetracked, both men are concerned with the question of whether democracy, in the sense of government by the people, is possible...
...line will come from Americans who would rather leave the problem of Europe to Britain and Russia. FORTUNE assumes agreement with Britain and Russia but thinks the U.S., which has never had a consistent policy toward Europe, will need one henceforth. If the U.S. is a full and equal partner the Big Three can keep Europe at peace. The U.S. role in this power triangle is to be the disinterested sponsor of a strong Europe; to make sure that Europe is not only restored to "all its ancient greatness and dignity" (as Churchill promised), but that it keeps up with...