Word: equalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duke of Alba intimated to an American Scholar who visited him while travelling through Spain, that the government wished to have certain art objects of national importance returned, among which was the Fogg sarcophagus. In return, the Spanish government would give other works of art of equal intrinsic value. This plan, however, was purely unofficial, and before the Duke was able to accomplish anything more definite, his king had been overthrown by the revolution...
...simple, like Archimedes' theoretical lever with which the old Greek said he could move the world. It is a hydraulic press, in which is utilized the fact that a piston bearing on a small area of a confined liquid delivers its pressure against every other area of equal size in the tank. Thus if a force of 100 lb. is brought against a piston one square inch in cross section, the force transferred through the liquid to a 1,000 sq. in. piston is 100,000 lb. The catch is that to make apparatus able to stand such...
...criticism. Irate citizens charged him with bad taste, with needlessly shocking his readers, with exposing to public gaze an extremely private and intimate incident. Especially voluble were mothers including one whose small son had brought the pictures into her bridge club meeting, asked for an explanation. But an equal number of citizens, including physicians, told him how interesting they had found the pictures, congratulated him warmly on a first-rate news beat. Editor Pooley remained convinced that he had made the right decision...
Since Dictator Benito Mussolini has sharply forbidden his soldiers to be served by native women, their needs in Asmara last week were being supplied by French and Italian girls, the French being in greater demand with equal wages rigidly enforced...
...Barrere still wears his old-fashioned beard, the sharp mustachios now flecked with grey. And his wit is still equal to any amount of teasing. Of his platinum flute, he says: "I don't play it to show that I have a bank balance or that Depression is over." About his whiskers: ''Why should people make fun of me any more than of Charles Evans Hughes. . . . Think of Sousa or the Smith Brothers. . . . While other artists waste a valuable part of each day playing with a razor or being mutilated by their favorite barber, I am having...