Word: equality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Officially five rubles equal one U.S. dollar, but this ratio has no bearing on relative purchasing power. The actual value of the ruble varies from article to article, depending on scarcity and Government decree. A pair of shoes worth $5 may cost 300 rubles. A pound of butter worth 52^ may cost 167 rubles. A fighter plane worth $120,-ooo may have an arbitrarily fixed value of 100,-ooo rubles...
Loafers in San Francisco's Civic Center Plaza, idly feeding crumbs to the pigeons, suddenly found three circus elephants in their midst. With equal suddenness, in the midst of the elephants, appeared sober, chunky Roger Dearborn Lapham, the onetime shipowner who is now San Francisco's bustling new mayor. Mounting a soapbox, able Mayor Lapham gave the pigeon feeders an impromptu 15-minute lecture on the merits of unifying the city's traction system. Pointing to the elephants, he cried: "There stands an early outmoded form of transportation the likes of which we intend...
...Alternatives. Such is the man, the Government, the idea to which the U.S. has so far refused full recognition. On invasion's eve, De Gaulle and his movement enjoy a grudging, strictly limited recognition by the U.S.; and equal (although more warmly expressed) recognition by the British; a fuller (although still incomplete) recognition by De Gaulle's "dear Russia...
...millimeters equal one inch; a 75 is roughly a 3-in. gun. *The distinctions between "gun" and "howitzer" generally: the howitzer is lighter, has a shorter barrel, is more mobile; a howitzer with the same mobility as a gun fires a much heavier projectile but with a lower muzzle velocity and at a shorter range...
...playing love scenes Ingrid Bergman has no contemporary equal. She appears not only to know the emotion and how to make it come to life on the screen, but also to realize, as no other screen actress does, that love is made up of kinds of candor, force and delicateness against which, so far, the Hays Office has contrived no adequate nets. There is a breathtaking honeymoon moment, expressed simply in Cinemactress Bergman's sure, elated walk from her bedside to her husband, which for plenitude and beauty has not been approached since Garbo's great days...