Word: equalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that case the throw would have been an inch longer or shorter, depending on whether it was downhill or uphill. The iron ball's trajectory is such that it hits the ground at an angle of about 45°, so that the deviation in length is about equal to the irregularity of surface level...
...spectacle which has lately drawn midwestern crowds is the roller-skating derby, a cross between a dance marathon and a six-day bike race. The troupe travels from city to city, then skates in an arena a distance equal to the intercity journey. The skaters compete in mixed pairs, get cups for speed and endurance. Last week one such roller-skating troupe set off from St. Louis in a chartered bus to put on their show in Cincinnati...
...Those who adopt plan B, "modified tutorial instruction", will in all probability find themselves occupying as regards the staff of their department the proverbially embarrassing position of the illegitimate child at the family reunion. In fields where there is no tutorial, all men will still be at least nominally equal, but where two classes exist "B" men will soon have to get accustomed to living in the doghouse. It can be argued that such a student has made his bed and so forth. Regardless of the moralistic grounds upon which such an attitude will be explained, there is one factor...
...stage, without costumes, scenery or action, with the orchestra playing full tilt on the platform instead of in the pit. Pauly, like all the other singers, rose formally to take her cues, sat down each time she had done, did little physical acting. But her voice was so evidently equal to the difficult score, her lines so deeply felt, that listeners forgot the lack of staging...
These five men have two main functions: 1) to terminate by June 30 the 44 old ocean mail contracts costing the Post Office $26,500,000 this year, replace them with a direct subsidy large enough in each case to put a U. S. ship operator on equal footing with his foreign competitors; 2) to stimulate the building of new U. S. ships by giving subsidies up to 50% of a vessel's cost to equalize the high price of shipbuilding in the U. S. with the low price abroad. Other tasks include getting rid of the rusting Wartime...