Word: equality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Barclaymen drew to within seven points of the Green in the waning moments of play. They lost Hauptfuhrer in the process, however, and then watched the fleet-footed enemy drop in three baskets and an equal number of foul shots, punctuated only by two Crimson free throws, to clinch the encounter...
Rallying behind the slogan "equal pay for male laborers," Union waiters are renewing agitation for a change in present work conditions, which they consider both unfair and demoralizing...
Vandenberg's baroque oratorical style was scarcely equal to his urgent sense of history. But his long and detailed presentation had a ponderous impressiveness. Said he solemnly: "[This plan] is the final product of eight months of more intensive study by more devoted minds than I have ever known to concentrate upon any other one objective in all my 20 years in Congress. ... If it fails, we have done our final best. If it succeeds, our children and our children's children will call us blessed...
...myth of "objective journalism" reached its height about 1938-39, before the Hitler-Stalin pact, before the sharp cleavage of war reminded the Western world that the famed "two sides of a question" are not always, or even often, equal. In the confusion of the late '303, TIME departed from the principle of its prospectus, and announced that it was practicing "objective" and "scientific" journalism. It wasn't. It never will. Nor will anybody else...
...transition of Aldous Huxley's short story, "The Gioconda Smile," into a motion picture, "A Woman's Vengeance," was effected only with a loss in subtle force equal to that suffered in the change of titles. But all of Huxley could not be distilled out fortunately, and that which remains raises the film far above the usual "psychodrama." His writing of the scenario produced dialogue more profound than that, ordinarily heard in film...