Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fillbustering, favorite indoor sport of the Senate, is again in vogue. New champions have arisen, whose feats may equal those of the old masters. The requisites for this delightful game are few,-one needs merely a strong constitution and as little real information as possible. Clearly, it is a sport in which practically every Senator can compete...
...picture not a problem; nevertheless it sets a question. However strange it may seem to us, the institution of marriage was based on the essential inferiority of women. It was a rational and intelligible basis, and on it marriage remained established. But now we have learnt that women are equal to men, can the came stability be secured...
...brain of a man"; and Mile. Novaes seemed to conform with most of that statement. Occasionally she was guilty of excessive rubato, and occasionally she rather pounded the lower reaches of the piano; but, for vitality of tone, evenness of scale, and fine interpretation, she cannot find an equal among any of the contemporary pianists we have heard. The Mazurka and the Etude were especially fine. The second group was disappointing; Albeniz has written much better piano music than "El Albaicin", and as for Liszt, he seldom rises to anything more than a series of mechanical jimcracks...
This new official recognition, combined with a little necessary livening up in the mental attitude, gives every assurance that the ghost industry of Great Britain can hope in the near future to compete on equal terms with the Mayflower relic monopoly in America, and, with Pilgrim spoons and Pilgrim shoebuckles being dug up in every corner of the States from Orono to Texarkana, even the most ambitious ghost could not hope for a brighter business forecast...
With the output of books increasing at an equal pace, and with such uncertain means for judgment, the casual reader and the book-buyer are put to it to make profitable selections. The desert-island test of a book's value, recently restored to academic popularity, would find little, nowadays, that could be passed...