Word: equality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bade a teary farewell at the close of the 1941 season to the best Varsity line Soldiers Fields has seen in recent years--a forward wall which included such rugged characters as Club Peabody Dick Pflster, Loren MacKinney, Tom Gardiner and Vern Miller--he's been wistfully seeking its equal. To predict that this year's Beef Trust will be a replica of that famous pre-war predecessor is wishful thinking only for the most partial of Crimson rooters, but a midsummer glance at the situation has enough bright spots to lead to moderately pleasant speculation...
Under the Silver Purchase Act of 1934, the Treasury must buy silver until its holdings equal 25% of federal monetary reserves, or until the price reaches $1.29 an ounce. But the Treasury has been able to sell silver only if the Silver Bloc is willing. For the last six months the Bloc has not been willing because Congress was not willing to boost the price of silver. Result: silver has been so scarce that the PhotoEngravers Board of Trade of New York went so far as to melt silver dollars to get silver for industrial uses (photographic plates, solder...
...John Safran's dismissal [TIME, July 1] take place in these United States of America . . . ? Surely "Christian America" would not countenance a man's dismissal simply because he dared to discuss racial tolerance and equality-or perhaps our category of "self-evident truths" no longer contains the clause that "all men are created equal...
Twenty-five wounded veterans from the Chelsea Naval Hospital will be guests of the Committee, and an equal number of Radcliffe girls and Wacs will go as dates for the disabled...
...this time Haines maintains that every college will have an equal chance to make the trip to England, since nearly every collegiate crew will have a complete turn-over in two years. He figures that the odds against any single college now stand...