Word: equalled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sore of the disarmament conference until it has become a cancer, and largely by the uprush of the Nazi movement." Mr. Churchill demanded four things: 1) denunciation of the London Naval Treaty (1930) so that Britain could build any type of ship she desired; 2) an air force equal to that of any power "within air range" (i. e. equal to France's); 3) preparations for the conversion of all factories to war purposes; 4) coordination of the entire national defense. Bumbling Stanley Baldwin, leader of the Conservative Party, was milder, but even he admitted that strengthening Britain...
...estimated by Harvard Square merchants that at least 10,000 Valentines have been sold in Cambridge during the last few days, men and women coming for them in equal numbers...
Kneeling in prayer the Obadies were now one, with emphasis on the fact that as man and woman they were equal...
...ability to borrow more money than he could handle; like Mr. Krueger, he suffered from a continual embarras de richesses, and was, in boom times, hard put to it in his effort to use the money which flowed into his hands. To this difficulty Mr. Insull was, however, equal; there was the Colorado River Dam, and the pyrrhic battle with Cyrus Eaton: The difficulty to which he was unequal was that of liquidation. As an expert in money and banking, Mr. Insull knew that liquidation, on a large scale, is a witless feat which no one who lends money...
Typical of what is liable to happen in a course open to both graduates and undergraduates is English 1, announced in the catalogue as "Chaucer." There is no restriction on the admission to the course and any undergraduate enters it on an equal footing with his seniors, expecting from the title in the catalogue a course designed to further a literary appreciation, of Chaucer and to teach enough of Middle English to enable the student to read the poetry with ease and enjoyment, a course similar in scope and design to Mr. Kittredge's English 2. But as the weeks...