Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...indeed difficult to name, offhand, another college class to equal Amherst '95. The obvious comparison is Princeton '79, whose membership includes Woodrow Wilson, Mahlon Pitney (former Justice of the United States Supreme Court), Cyrus H. McCormick (head of the International Harvester Co.), Robert Bridges (editor of Scribner's Magazine), Cleveland H. Dodge (major capitalist and philanthropist...
...first duke to be created was the Duke of Cornwall, 1337, but this has always been a royal title. Originally all peers were supposed to be equal. The senior peer of the peerage is Bernard Marmaduke Fitz-Alan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk, 15 years of age, who, by virtue of his rank, carries the extra titles of Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal and Chief Butler of England. The dukedom dates from...
Shortly after the murder of Pancho Villa by his enemies, the New York American published a picture of him lying dead, stretched out on a bed in a Parral hospital. There was no trace of malignancy on his features as he lay there, stricken and inanimate. Not many newspapers equal the American in the spirit of enterprise...
...National Woman's Party meeting at Seneca Falls, N. Y., at the place and on the 75th anniversary of the first women's rights conference adopted a resolution for a Constitutional Amendment to give women and men equal rights throughout the country. Miss Alice Paul, Vice President of the party, presented the resolution. There was a dance of 50 women and children representing the progress of woman. Later the delegates went to Rochester, N. Y., and paid tribute at the grave of Susan B. Anthony, one of the early leaders of their movement...
...Fellows and a Girl. A girl, on fire in two places with two equal flames of love, directs the contenders to flip a coin for her favor. For her sake (and for the sake of the play) the gentlemen comply. The winner marches her off to church...