Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...testified that he entered into an agreement with Contractor Thompson and an associate (one Black, now dead) to procure hospital contracts for them in consideration of 35% of the profits that they should make. He also declared that he had made an agreement with Mr. Forbes for an equal division of these proceeds between the two of them. He told of giving Mr. Forbes various sums at several times, paying Forbes' traveling expenses on a trip to the Pacific, and of another disreputable arrangements. He admitted that he was equally guilty with Mr. Forbes; and explained his testimony...
...anger a whole Greenwich Village nestful of half-baked literati whose baseless pretensions to significance it is Mr. Boyd's spirited but impersonal mission in life to deny. The Yeats, Moore and Stephens portraits, while of small dimensions, are of a purity which few contemporary critics could well equal. Add to these considerations the facts that Mr. Boyd is the thorough master of several languages, both dead and alive; that he is as industrious as he is accomplished; that his admirations, while far fewer, are no less fine than his contempts- and it would seem a fortunate thing...
...latter strutting before their constituencies with a New Year rodomondate: "One step more and we shall be a full-fledged member of the family of nations. We shall slap France upon the back, raise our hat to England-with a touch of hauteur to show we are her equal. We can be a trifle patronizing to our late, fortune-fallen master, Spain. As for this overbearing U. S., we shall cut him dead...
...lump of sugar. No, for insulin dissolves in the juices of the stomach and becomes virtueless. These pills melt in the mouth like very sugar, but, unlike sugar, they melt into the body direct, are absorbed through the pores of the tongue. The effect is reported to equal that of injections. Thus may the diabetes-stricken fight their malady, at some future time, with lozenges...
...successful vineyard, Jefferson raised him from the rank of laborer in a vineyard to the position of professor of modern languages in the college of William and Mary. Carlo Bellini was a clerk in the treasurer's office in Florence and accompanied his friend Mazzei as a social equal to Virginia. Mazzei was an Italian physician, who had been a merchant for a few years in Smyrna, and later in London, before coming to Virginia. After Mazzei's return to Europe from Virginia, he held various important positions, among others, financial agent for Virginia in Europe, and privy...