Word: equality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fascinating booklet on the subject (Water-supply Paper 416; 15?) which told the history of the dowsers, beginning with Moses, who lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly (Numbers 20: 11). Few modern dowsers hoped to equal Moses, but some of them offered prizes, such as oilfields or mineral deposits, which Moses and his nomads never coveted...
...loans. The Bank is not expected to lend directly from its own funds; it hasn't enough money. (Only $750,000 of the amount subscribed by 38 countries has been paid in so far.) So it can either buy foreign bonds-e.g., Czech bonds-and sell an equal amount of its own bonds to the world or it can underwrite foreign bonds-i.e., sell them direct to the public but guarantee them...
...desire for haste was not matched by an equal yearning for efficiency. Defense counsel complained that documents and witnesses, available any time during the last six months, were still to be produced at Bad Nauheim. Last week, on this score, they won a 26-day continuance in Ennis' case, asked 30 days for Cubage...
...company is imagination, the kind of imagination in choreography and staging that enables the Ballet Theatre to give productions like its "Firebird" (with sets by Chagall!), "On Stage," or "Fair at Sorochinsk," efforts that the Ballet Russe perhaps through unavoidable monetary restrictions--would never even try to equal...
Schoolmaster J. H. Evans comes from Harrow, where men are men or soon will be. Last week in Blackpool, England, Evans led a fight in the National Association of School Masters against an equal-pay-for-women plank. Said Evans, in the argument that carried the day: equal pay is an "ambitious and egocentric demand of the feminist movement [with its] pernicious and damnable doctrine of interchangeability of men and women teachers. [It denies the] elemental right of British boys to be taught...