Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gregarious; but we should have resented being forced into a college mould, and detested the wire-pulling that would have been necessary in freshman year, to get in the "right college" for the last three years. For let no one imagine that all the sub-divided colleges will be equal in social attraction. Almost fatally the public-school men will gravitate to some, and the prep-school men to others: certain unfortunates will be wanted no where, unless they are segregated into colleges of their...
...exceedingly dilatory and shortsighted, consistent only in its love of a fight. She finds the pugnacious instinct in politicians so ingrained that every political operation of form or fancy must run the gamut of battle. When women, writes Mrs. Blair, hold a convention, they allot to each delegate an equal number of complimentary tickets, but when men convene politically, they pass through the throes of civil combat to appoint a ticket committee favorable to one side or another...
...Classification under the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution", Professor Yeomans, Harvard 2, Government...
...game has to equal for speed and endurance, and the development of these features has probably done more to attract the public interest than anything else. Always a fast game, the shortening and improvement of the lacrosse stick made it still faster. The original stick was little more than a flat net on a long handle, and to control the ball with it was little short of marvelous. The modern mentors of the game saw that a shorter stick with a deeper webbing would make for quicker, castle and more accurate handling of the ball. It would prevent a slowing...
...time, understood what it was saying. "When you go out on the ferry to Staten Island," he wrote, "there is one moment on the trip when, looking back to Manhattan, you see the city cleft by the canyon of Broadway. I say that the Grand Canyon has nothing to equal that sight...