Word: equality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offer my transgression of slipping away from a morning task for a siesta in the wood shed with a huge basket of butternuts. I was fond of them and the supply so generous I indulged past discretion. I fain recall a most distressing followup, which, I am sure, would equal or exceed any after effects of home-stirred apple butter. With this recital I hope to qualify as a member of the "Butter Stirrers" in full and regular standing...
Williams also has reason to be grateful for the smoothness with which the change was accomplished. If the actual personal transition was achieved with dispatch, it is reassuring that the policy adjustments of the college will be effected with equal case, for Dr. Dennett's friend and successor is in full sympathy with the fundamental program already under way, and contemplates no interruption in administrative continuity. An able man has been succeeded by a capable exponent of the the same faith...
...their optimum weights would be to ask a group of recognized leaders in the field of higher education to express their judgments at to their relative importance as crietria and then average the results of these judgments. No such attempt is here made. Instead, they have all been given equal weight in combining them into a single composite measure by the method of average ranks. Each of the institutions has been ranked in each of the 28 features according to the data given in Mr. Foster's tables, and the sum of these ranks computed for each institution...
Down at Brown nestled--in the foot-hills of Providence the famine in foot-ball victories has been of equal intensity and greater duration than it has up among us city folks in Cambridge. And on long winter nights the alumnie wolves can be heard starting their long quavering howls as they thirst for the blood of one Mr. Tuss McLaughry, coach for some time now at the Providence institution...
...sequence and the last, Joan Blondell swoops through a breathlessly foreshortened flight of pseudo-newsfalconry. She gets an innocent woman indicted for murder, flattens a leering lounger with a right hook to the jaw. In the best traditions of the temperamental reporter, she several times resigns her job, with equal fidelity to tradition cannot resist grabbing it back when a hot story breaks right under her nose, punctuates her progress by the tintinnabulations of shattering glass doors as she flounces in & out of offices...