Word: equalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great new fact that is riveting the attention of every country in Europe and the world is that Germany is rearming!" He estimated that within a year the military air force of the Fatherland-which is forbidden to have any such air force by the Treaty of Versailles-would equal Britain's. ''Ten days of intensive bombing of London would kill or maim 30,000 or 40,000 people, and in a short time 3,000,000 or 4.,00,000 would be driven into the country. . . . Under the German Government organization all that is needed...
...treaty restrictions gives the lie to the professions of pacifism which our diplomats bandy about, but those paper limitations, so readily abandoned, are rather a confession of intent to give battle than a statement of Christian generosity. The signatories, like mutually mistrustful urchins, concede one another a theoretically equal start, but tacitly confess the possibility of hostilities...
...toughest decisions of his career Justice Carew had no one to help him make up his mind because he alone had heard all the evidence with impartiality. But the doughty Justice felt equal to the task. When an East Side mother turned up with 300 signatures to "An Humble Appeal to Give This Mother to Her Child" he barked: "If she brings it to me I'll make her eat it with catsup...
...With equal deliberation and determination he let his acts speak for themselves...
Last week a stock model Douglas transport plane zipped across the U. S. from Los Angeles to Newark in 12 hr. 3 min. It made but one stop-at Kansas City. Although it failed by nearly two hours to equal the coast-to-coast time of Roscoe Turner's racing plane, it broke the transport record and clearly showed that a 12-hr, transcontinental passenger service is possible, if not yet practical...