Word: equality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...squad was divided into a Red Team and White Team for the game, the Reds representing a tentative number one outfit. The Reds won the game by a score of 13 to 2 although they were matched on equal terms by the Whites during most of the play...
...metropolitan race tracks make good reading but represent hardly a trickle of the national spending power waiting to burst out of the temporary confines of banks and bonds. When the new Price Control Act requires that ceilings on any item whose production for "a 12 month period is equal to its production for the peak year, July 1940 to June 1941" be lifted, economic dynamite is being held too near the flame. Today's goods-hungry consumers could snap up total 1941 production in a month, leaving thousands unsatisfied. All-out bidding would begin, and-before production could catch demand...
...Hooge Veluwe National Park. In the secluded hunting estate, the conferees wrestled with the last loose ends of an agreement which had been fashioned in preliminary Java meetings. The stubborn Dutch and fanatic Indonesians had found a middle ground. Indonesia would become an autonomous "full and equal" partner with The Netherlands, Surinam and Curaçao, under the Dutch crown...
...where n is the diathetical evolute of retrograde temperature phase disposition and C is Cholmondeley's annular grillage coefficient. Initially, n was measured with the aid of a metapolar refractive pilfrometer . . . but up to the present date nothing has been found to equal the transcendental hopper dadoscope...
...older, also has trouble because of his faith. It is shaken when sickness prevents his winning the scholarship that might have made him a doctor. It is sorely pressed when his best friend, hurrying to console him, is killed by a train before his eyes. (Audiences may echo with equal perplexity his plea to God: "Why? Why?") It is destroyed when, despite prayer, his foster-mother dies. With faith gone, it is natural enough for Robert to reject the girl (Beverly Tyler) who wants to marry him: "I know my place" (in the boilerworks), he grates. And with faith rather...