Word: equality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...traditional interest in naval affairs has displayed a lively curiosity on how the U. S. and British fleets would maneuver in case of trouble in the Pacific-meaning with Japan. The Navy Department never speaks of a second-to-none fleet, which implies rivalry with Britain, but of one equal to the combined navies of any two Fascist powers-meaning Japan and an ally...
Perhaps the most definite statement of Dr. Conant's ideas came Monday when he addressed the Harvard Club at Kansas City. The poor child should have equal educational opportunities with the richer ones, he said...
Suddenly he is aware of the steamroller again. Unhurriedly it has traversed the blocks, giving to all equal and fair opportunity to scramble to safety. Now it looms over him, and the Vagabond looks at it and does not move. he knows he could perhaps move his head and body out of the way by a frantic effort. But he also knows he is certain to lose a stray arm or leg under that inhuman pressure. Somehow it doesn't seem worth the trouble to him. Maybe it will stop. Maybe it will go away or melt like...
...wife & son to Edinburgh, Rome, Berlin and Paris. It shows him as a good-natured, hard-headed patriot, as provincial as General Grant, gawking at every cathedral, castle, museum and picture gallery. But it shows him also as a distinguished scientist, meeting Charles Darwin and Thomas Huxley on equal terms. A stanch Presbyterian, he hated Episcopalians and Catholics, but thought the Congregationalists would win out in the end. The only thing he wholeheartedly admired was European art in general, nudes in particular. He studied representations of Venus all over Europe, found little fault with any of them, although he thought...
...quota for 1937 was first set at 6,682,000 tons, then raised to a whopping 7,042,000. But consumption in the U. S. has plummeted during the past three months of depression and sugar-men now fear that this year's consumption will not equal even the original 1937 quota. They were distinctly irked, therefore, when Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace last week set a new 1938 quota of 6,861,000 tons. Said the Wall Street Journal: "In the opinion of the trade a quota of 6,861,000 tons is too large to permit...