Word: equality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fray at any time. Previously this year, more than competent performances of Thus Spake Zarathustra and Don Quixote were heard, but the Don Juan which followed can be spoken of only in glowing superlatives. Also heard during this hour and a half of musical ecstasy was an-almost-equal-to-Toscanini Brahms' Variations on a theme of Haydn, and three choral selections sung by the Cocilia Society and Apollo Clubs of Boston. These included Brahms' "Ein Schicksalslied" (A, Song of Destiny). Wolf's "Der Fuerreiter" (The Fire Riders) and the Borodin Polovetzian Dances from "Prince Igor." The flawlessness of their...
...Construction in 1943 will concentrate on airplane carriers and destroyer escorts. This year's carriers will "multiply many times" the total carrier force in 1942; escorts to be built will equal the total escort force at the end of last year...
...newest dive-bomber, announced fortnight ago, is North American's A36, a modification of the famed Mustang fighter. With Mustang speed (about 400 m.p.h.) and armament, the A36 also has diving brakes and bomb racks, can pull out of a bombing attack to meet enemy fighters on equal or superior terms...
...nation would find its credit with the American Fund or British Clearing Union increasing or diminishing according to the trend in balance of payments. If, for instance, Britain were importing more than it was exporting, its holdings of Unitas (or bancor) would tend to diminish (other factors being equal). If the U.S. were exporting more than it was importing, its credit in Unitas (or bancor) would tend to increase...
Universal Pictures. No medium of communication is more promising than pictures. Printed news has a strong tendency to be news of the abnormal or disastrous events of life; the camera's patient eye finds equal fascination in the characteristic doings of people, the enduring and mysterious images of places. Already a supranational language of entertainment, the cinema and the news photograph, with television, may in the future become a world-teaching art which artists of all nations may practice...