Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...justice and freedom to go to war. Of course the article on p. 13 was news, and all right, but why cause Americans, or at least one, to remember any more vividly that arch-rascal and scoundrel "Wilhelm Der Zweite" who felt that he was almost if not equal with...
...garden." U. S. Commissioner of Education John J. Tigert discussed the drawbacks of democracy: "It is quite clear that democracy which has breathed so much vitality into the schools of the present generation, may be carried to the point where it will become an evil which can be equaled only by the good it has accomplished. ... It is a serious question in the minds of thoughtful men. . . ." And so it went, speech after speech-Commissioner Augustus O. Thomas of Maine urging that school children be made "internationally minded"; Dr. William Healy, director of the Judge Baker Foundation of Boston, urging...
That sweetening of labor which is a salary bonus sifted unexpectedly and in unusual ways upon three working groups last week. In Manhattan, each employe of the First National Bank discovered one morning a novel mid-year gift, an unexpected bonus equal to his entire year's salary. At the end of a year every bank employe expects some kind of bonus. It is his wage gamble against usually meagre salaries. This bonus was different. It was the personal gift of the bank's board chairman, George Fisher Baker, to 148 clerks and junior officers. It approximated...
...tightlipped, square-shouldered, undistinguished outwardly save as young editors sometimes look alert and vigorous, Gerald P. Nye has done very well for himself without any of the paternal glamor that has assisted Robert Lafollette, aged 31, Nye's only rival for "youngster of the Senate." All things being equal, doubtless Senators Nye and Lafollette will reminisce together some decades from now in the august Chamber, over episodes of the mid-Nineteen-Twenties, which no one else then present will come any where near remembering...
...There is a noble simplicity about this reply. ... Is there any phrase in English military history equal...