Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Britain has two just-completed 35,000 ton capital ships, the Rodney and the Nelson. The U. S. has no ships of equal fighting power...
...what extent has Canada progressed since her Constitution became operative 60 years ago? Significant facts: 1) The land which was "our Dominion" to Queen Victoria, in fact as well as phrase, is now a great nation, legally co-equal in political status with Great Britain, and independent within the British Commonwealth. 2) During the Jubilee period the population of Canada has increased from 3,500,000 to 9,500,000; railways from 2,278 miles of track to 40,000; industrial capital from $77,000,000 to $3,000,000,000; and occupied farm lands from 30,000,000 acres...
...peace proposal, the ship and Mr. Herrick all constituted last week a combined gesture of amity, concord and art hard to equal...
This Cotsworth-Eastman calendar would divide the year into 13 equal months of 28 days each, each day numbered and named exactly the same. The 13th month would be called Sol and would go between June and July. The 365th day would be called "year-day" and be numbered December 29. In leap year the 366th day would be numbered June...
...Significance. After contemplating Walt Whitman, styled by him The Magnificent Idler, Author Rogers steps up to look at another post-Civil War celebrity, styled "perfect man," " drunken atheist, "equal of Demosthenes. The biographer's literary luggage is this time a collapsible suitcase full of modern stylistic, analytical, rhetorical tricks which make Ingersoll's oldtime silver -tongued bombast seem, by contrast, like the noises of a nickleplated nickleodeon. Undeniably, Colonel Bob was once important. He was, by force of personality, a sun about which minor political planets moved, forming an Ingersollar system. Now, no longer important, his outmoded heresies...