Word: equality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is also the problem of spontaneity. Many state and national songs have been composed in time of stress. Few visions of Massachusetts' scenery, stirring as it may be, can equal the inspirational effect of the familiar rocket's red glare. To create a setting for its songwriters Massachusetts might declare war on Rhode Island...
Under Proportional Representation, voters pick a number of candidates equal to the available positions, and the votes are counted in order of preference. By the system of unlimited plurality, which Newman opposes, the voter still has as many choices as the number of positions, but all the choices are of equal value. Limited plurality would limit voters to three equal choices...
...turned to him and said, "All I need is a lyric." Without so much as a flicker, he grabbed some paper and began drafting the rhythm on which to base his lines. I have heard of rapid composers but I doubt if any other American lyricist could equal the speed of Sherwood, or, for that matter, could compose finer poems. His skill was uncanny...
...Cambridge decides against PR in the referendum asked for in the bill, voters will cast nine votes of equal value for the nine positions on the Council. In the PR system, used only by one other town in the state, Worcester, the votes vary in value acorcding to the order in which they are cast...
...days before Lamont, when the Widener reading room resembled an intellectual YMCA, Radcliffe students surrounded a young man named Phillip McNiff like a band of suffragettes to petition for equal rights. The protests accomplished nothing, McNiff continued to chase the intruders away, and Radcliffe bulletin boards meekly rescinded their initial judgement by announcing: "Mr. McNiff is not an ogre...