Word: equality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dewey author of a paper on the symposium on "Authority and the Individual." An octogenerian, Dewey still evidences one of the keenest minds in the country. Although he made no attempt to furnish humorous copy, his ability to prevent himself from declaring for or against the present administration was equal to all the endeavors of the assembled newspapermen, though at one time he had to come out with the frank statement, "Really, gentlemen, this isn't a campaign speech, you know...
...have not had Wade Hampton's equal in the executive mansion recently, though we did have Richard I. Manning for our World War governor. Just visit the campus of the University in Columbia, the College of Charleston or the Citadel, if you want to see the present aristocracy of a great little State...
...days when Tilden, Johnston and Richards, first three in the world's tennis ranking, made the thought of serious rivalry for the Davis Cup an absurdity, the U. S. Men's Singles Championship was easily the equal of the All-England Championship at Wimbledon. This year the U. S. celebrated the tenth anniversary of its last Davis Cup victory by failing for the first time even to reach the final of the tournament* and the only chance that Forest Hills would supply the season's climax as well as its conclusion lay in the hope that...
...scholars had no reason to complain of lack of public attention. Scripps-Howard's glib Columnist Westbrook Pegler wrote two pieces about what he referred to as "Highbrows' Old Home Week." A new extension of geometry which made it appear that the whole is not equal to the sum of the parts (see below) served as a pat allusion for an editorial writer commenting on the cordial meeting between Alf Landon and Franklin Roosevelt (see p. 13), for a sportswriter gloating over the winning spurt of the New York Giants. A letter arrived from the editor of Beauty...
...problem, were constrained to agree. Dr. Kasner solved the problem with four unreal numbers. When the angle is bisected in his geometrical system, the sum of the halves is greater than the whole. And if one of the curves is considered to be a straight line, each half is equal to the whole...