Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Roosevelt (in 1902) because his superior officers would not listen to him as he cried: "The protection and armament of even our most recent battleships are glaringly inferior to those of our possible enemies. . . . One or more of our ships would suffer humiliating defeat at the hands of an equal number of ene-of the Torpedo-Boat Flotilla of the Atlantic Fleet. In 1916 he became Commander of the Nevada, then...
Stepping from his train, the Prince kissed the King's hand formally, started to greet Queen with equal formality and suddenly embraced his mother instead...
Artist Sims paints what he sees with glittering fluency. A. Lys Baldry once declared that "few present-day painters equal him in acuteness of observation, fewer-still surpass him in mechanical skill. Although Mr. Sims' work somewhat reflects the rhetorical stiffness of Mr. Baldry's sentence, that is because he, like his critic, is a Britisher, and this quality is an immemorial part of the British intellect-an intellect never so ponderous as when it is airy and never so supple as when it is hard with scorn...
...whole University, charged with the responsibility of offering an opportunity for physical exercise and athletics to the whole University and not only to the undergraduates. A student in one of the graduate schools is quite as much a member of the University as is an undergraduate, and has an equal right to the opportunities for athletics afforded under your Committee by the University. This your Committee believes is a general principle with exceptions only in direct relation to the exclusion of graduate students from the intercollegiate contests. Thus, your Committee believes it is justified in preferring students and graduates...
...than the words of the great Italian, Benedetto Croce, in the preface to his recent book on Goethe. 'During the sad days of the World War', Croce writes, 'I reread Goethe's works and gained deeper consolation and greater courage from him than I could have gained perhaps in equal measure from any other poet...