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Word: equalization (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...every 200 Nicaraguans. There is approximately one soldier in the U. S. army for every 1,000 U. S. citizens. Therefore the number of U. S. marines in Nicaragua is proportionately as great as though the U. S. had sent half its entire army to fight a nation equal in population to the U. S. But, by repeated definition, the U. S. was not at war with Nicaragua; and, indeed, no Nicaraguan dared to shoot a U. S. marine. Developments. Besides pouring 1,600 more marines into Nicaragua, last week, until a total of 3,300 were policing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: Marines Poured In | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

...they both acted in The Makropoulos Secret, Donald Duff was inspired to write a play for Joanna Roos. He called it Stigma, produced it himself, acts in it and helps direct. Miss Roos also appears. The youthful hero, a Rhodes scholar, declares all colors and conditions of women are equal in his sight, proves his preaching by practicing it upon a professor's wife and her Negro maid. The maid begets a child, the wife goes crazy, the theory goes wrong. With such material, a play must achieve sublimity or absurdity. The professor's wife amazed everybody near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Feb. 28, 1927 | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

...although the game had become national in scope, was still largely an eastern organization. Harvard wanted it always to be so, for then the power of the Crimson on the committee would be great. Harvard has never wanted the middle west, the south and the far west to have equal representation with the east on the football rules committee. --Big Ten Weekly. February...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 2/26/1927 | See Source »

Once again, Montgomery Wells, stellar Dartmouth hurdler, flashed through in five and four fifths seconds to equal his own world's record for the event. In second place, Ballantyne of the University ran a fine race but was distanced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FLAKSMAN, GUARNACCIA WINNERS AT PORTLAND | 2/19/1927 | See Source »

...that managers of motion pictures have no scientific way of determining whether or not the general illumination of the auditorium is what it should be and, in fact, this is governed by the judgment of the management which may take into consideration certain factors and entirely disregard others of equal or greater importance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POOR LIGHTING IN MOVIE THEATRES CAUSES BLINDNESS, AUTHORITY SAYS | 2/17/1927 | See Source »

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