Word: equaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...black-market set, having blown its tainted bankroll, had crawled back into the woodwork, leaving room for the merely wealthy. The total number of tourists this season was estimated at about 2,000,000 -down 1,000,000 from last winter and about equal to the 1940-41 season. The Miami News Bureau said that spending was 10 to 15% off the alltime high...
...with the help of the U.S. Supreme Court, Ada Lois Sipuel, who is a Negro, couldn't get into the University of Oklahoma law school. The Court, which made up its mind in an almost unprecedented hurry, had told the State of Oklahoma to give Ada an education equal to what whites get (TIME, Jan. 19). And at least one of the judges made it plain that a law school for just one pupil is no legal education at all. But this week the Oklahoma state regents established a school of law at Oklahoma City (as part of Langston...
...larger states met in caucus and unwittingly contributed the great compromise of the convention. Listening to their inconclusive talk, the delegates of the small states realized that there was no concerted plan among them to override the rights of the smaller states. The small states surrendered their hope of equal representation in the House, thus giving up their attachment to a confederation of equal states. The larger states surrendered proportional representation in the Senate, thus abandoning any hope they held of a consolidated government over the entire country. Once this was accomplished, the details were settled swiftly, and on Sept...
...Observatory is looking forward dispassionately to a record snowfall this year. Although they pretend no connection between the fall of the first and second half of the winter, the 29 inches necessary to equal the 113 inch record of 1922-23 seems within close reach...
...Director. With two of the year's best films to his credit, Kazan was a cinch for directorial honors. He also seemed assured of equal applause from Broadway: he had directed two of the year's outstanding stage hits: Arthur Miller's All My Sons and Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire. Kazan, 38, in whose work imagination and taste are vigorously combined, was clearly Man of the Year in that vague enclave known as Show Business...