Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...asserts the right of withdrawal, requires that all advisory opinions be public, and none rendered touching the United States without its consent. A nation sitting in the League Council can, because the Council functions by unanimity, prevent any request for an advisory opinion. The last reservation but secures an equal power to the United States...
...find that the headline "Three Minor Letters Equal to Straight 'H'" as well as the quoted statement "that any man receiving three minor sport 'H's' in three different sports be awarded a straight 'H'" has given rise to a misunderstanding of what is really intended by the Minor Sport Souncil. The phrase "Straight 'H'" should be corrected to read "Minor 'H'"; for the provision was passed that any man receiving three minor letters in different sports be awarded the Minor "B", which is quite different from the Straight or Varsity...
Both teams tonight will be supplied with a wealth of reserve strength. The Purple squad has two forward lines of almost equal power although the individual brilliance of Captain Watkins, center and chief scoring threat of the Berkshire six and Popham, speedy wing, has given the first string line a slight edge in starting games. At the defense posts Howe and Baker have started nearly every game for the invaders, and have proved equally efficient at checking and at playing down...
...Aside from its other advantages," he says, "such a system will be of equal value to the student who acquires knowledge rapidly, as well as to his slower colleague. It is hoped that by the elimination of the class system, the pupil who acquires knowledge less easily will be less reluctant to spend more time in preparation, while the more brilliant scholar will be more willing to spend longer periods in investigation and in specialization...
...Canadian Parliament assembled last week at Ottawa, on Capitol Hill, amid highly extraordinary circumstances arising out of the recent "freak election" (TIME, Nov. 9), which gave the two major parties (Conservative and Liberal) an almost equal number of seats in the Canadian House of Commons...