Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...broomsticks. They smeared each other with an irritant ointment, danced and leaped high with sticks between their legs, thereby exciting themselves for the orgy which closed all witches "Sabbats" (Congresses). Withal, they zealously professed a kind of religion, a perverted Gnostic creed that postulated the Devil equal part-creator of the universe with God and more ready to reward his adorants with the things of this world than was the self-styled "jealous" Father...
This makes the fourth year that Harvard has won the competition of the Boston Society of Architects, but it is the first time that one man has received the award. Heretofore it has been divided among two or more competitors whose submitted drawings were considered of equal merit...
Harvard, Dartmouth, Pennsylvania, Boston College, M. I. T., Baskell Institute and Bates will participate in the race, putting it on a competitive basis equal to the L. C. 4-A, championship event which comes later this winter at Madison Square Garden...
...TIME, Jan. 17] the Pons Asinorum is the proposition stating the sum of the squares on the sides of a right triangle equals the square of the hypotenuse. This is the Pathagerean Theorem. The Pons Asinorum states that if two sides of a triangle are equal the angles opposite these sides are equal. Pons refers to the figure used to prove the proposition...
...most popular tone poem; others, as Thus Spake Zarathustra, probed deep into philosophy; another, Heldenleben (Life of a Hero), was admittedly satirical autobiography, with realistic passages presenting the jabbering of critics. Then came, perhaps thirdly, though somewhat intermittent and extended in date, his fine concert songs (lieder), the equal in art of the great of all times in that field. Fourth was opera, which at first he twice essayed with failure...