Word: equaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wall are the lines from the Declaration of Independence: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. . . ." Disorder and Glory. The path down which Thomas Jefferson wanted to lead his nation - and to which his words still point- was no easy one. He wanted no paternalistic government to arrange its citizens' lives, no hidebound society to order their thoughts and actions. To him, the perfect state had "a wise and frugal government...
...first time in history, should be set free from the outworn restraints of feudalism and primogeniture, allowed to work out their own destiny without exploitation by government. He did not believe, as his words in the Declaration of Independence seemed to say, that all men were equally good; he did believe that all men were born worthy of an equal chance. Then the U.S. would move forward, to vistas beyond the imagination, under the leadership of "a natural aristocracy . . . the grounds for [which] are not wealth and birth, but talents and virtue." In his old age, infirm and debt-ridden...
...Bulgaria's bald, 49-year-old King Boris III journeyed last week to Adolf Hitler's general headquarters. Hitler reportedly demanded: 1) six Bulgarian divisions for the defense of the Black and Aegean Sea coasts; 2) five additional Bulgarian divisions to replace an equal number of Germans in Serbia, thus easing Hitler's critical war manpower situation; 3) curfews, civilian evacuations and other extraordinary measures in Bulgaria's coastal areas. The Germans apparently expected an invasion through Bulgaria into middle Europe. Boris also understood the possibility. Bulgarians were asked "to endure with patience and calmness...
...Haguesters charged 1) that Governor Charles Edison could have found Iowa-born Studebaker's equal among native Jerseymen; 2) that present Commissioner Charles H. Elliott was being shelved after seven years because...
Such a German government would then be ready to be a worthy member for full participation on equal and dignified terms in that "Council of Europe" which Mr. Winston Churchill seemed to discern as he "peered through the mists of the future" on the evening of Sunday March...