Word: equalled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hundred to two hundred and fifty men of highest ability is suggested as the maximum permissible. To provide opportunity for a selected group of outstanding students, there should be available at least twenty-five fellowships paying an annual stipend of fourteen hundred dollars or more, and an equal number of scholarships covering tuition. The fact that Harvard is to lead the way in graduate study and that the financing of a man's study becomes increasingly difficult as he enters the graduate field, makes funds imperative for the purpose of students support...
...three major veterans' organizations responsible for the bill had settled their long-standing differences over Bonus payment by demanding more from the Government than any of them had ever formally asked before. The full maturity value of a Bonus certificate represents, in almost equal proportions, the Government's original grant in 1925 and interest to accrue on that grant until 1945. For the reasons stated in their preamble, the veterans' leaders demanded: 1) immediate payment of the full 1945 value of each certificate, less only the amount the holder had borrowed on it; 2) a refund...
...Deal's social security, railway pension and Coal Act taxes; $547,000,000 from the New Deal's processing taxes;* $354,000,000 from customs; $2,103,000,000 from miscellaneous internal revenue (of which liquor taxes make up one quarter and tobacco taxes almost an equal share); $160,000,000 from minor sources; and $1,943,000,000 from income taxes. This income tax yield is 77% greater than the income taxes collected in the fiscal year which closed last June. Lest the public should groan at paying so much in taxes the President pointed out that...
...topflight physicist and Nobel Prizewinner of the University of Chicago for his ability to get things said without benefit of polysyllables. His address last week was understandable to anyone who knew what photons and ions are. He introduced one hybrid term of his own devising: isocosms, or lines of equal cosmic ray intensity on the world map. He showed on a chart how isocosms closely follow the lines of equal geomagnetic intensity. He left a definite impression that isocosms were not to be argued with...
Burton was praised for turning in "the best game any tackle played for us all year," while the shifty running back won equal commendation. "If Moseley had ever had the blocking that Shepherd had at Western Maryland, he would have been an equally consistent ground-gainer...