Word: equalled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...everything imposed upon them! Ready enough to start bowing himself Sidky Pasha larded into his speech coy hints that Egypt must continue under Britain's thumb but should have her official "free and independent" status improved by concluding between Cairo and London a reciprocal "military alliance on an equal footing...
Into Detroit's public welfare office marched dusky, buxom Mrs. Lilly Brooks, mother of Negro Pugilist Joe Louis and eight other offspring. Under the superintendent's nose she shoved a check for $269, equal to the relief money which had tided her and her brood over a hard period in 1927-28. Said she: "Joe wanted it paid back...
Favorites with the women of Japan are Japanese Poem Cards, 200 in a pack, which are divided into two equal parts. The first 100 each have the picture of a Japanese poet with two lines of a poem of his written below the picture. On each of the other 100 the poem is finished. In playing the game one person reads the poem, while the other tries to put her finger on the picture of the poet who wrote...
Most sensational of these changes was that by which Larry Johnson, one-time Milton Academy fullback and captain, has ousted the highly touted Clarence (Butch) Boston from his post at full. Boston, once hailed as the answer to a coach's prayer who could kick, run and pass with equal facility, has not been able to stay ahead of the hard driving Johnson although he outweighs him by ten pounds. Both men are able-players, however, and will probably see service on the Varsity squad next fall...
...Sales of farm implements have risen even more sharply than the rise in farm income. From a 1932 low of some $150,000,000 they have more than doubled, until domestic sales for the present year are estimated at $350,000,000-a total almost equal to the domestic sales for 1930. Profits, and even dividends, have returned to the farm implement industry for the first time since 1930 and another section of U. S. business has definitely turned Depression's corner. Noteworthy among the companies which have shared this boom...