Word: equalled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...international trade game, how many bushels of apples and pears equal how many gallons of wine? All last week the U. S. haggled that point with France. The original import quota of French wines had been 784,000 gal. Most of that had been bought up in the Christmas rush. If any more French wines were to be admitted, the Federal Alcohol Control Administration politely informed the French Embassy in Washington, France would have to buy a great deal more U. S. apples and pears...
...score of equality of the sexes the Conference voted to submit to all member states a draft treaty under which "equal nationality rights" would be guaranteed to women, and to recommend that all countries grant them "civil and political equality." Secretary Hull, acting on cabled orders from Washington, abstained from voting for the resolution because there is a faction in the Administration, led by the President's wife, which favors granting to women at work and in the home more than equal rights with...
...earth's surface, said the Pease-Pearson results should be "most interesting from a geophysics standpoint." Harvard Observatory's Director Harlow Shapley thought the results were due entirely to the relationship of earth, sun and moon movements, pointed out that the 14¾-day fluctuation was roughly equal to half a lunar cycle and the annual fluctuation to the earth's revolution round the sun. From nearby Caltech, Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan suggested that there may have been something wrong with the apparatus...
...practical objection that these fields do not properly lie within the scope of a liberal arts curriculum. Obviously these are not the only courses at Harvard which violate the liberal ideal, and they were chosen largely because of their prominence and their popularity; others, such as Aerial Photography, give equal substance to Dr. Flexner's view that the liberal arts college is coming to be an ideal honored more in the breach than in the observance...
Among the group of gold objects is a gold fibula or safety pin, decorated with a ram's head, whose Etruscan filigree work is of the greatest rarity. Of equal prominence is a series of gold dress ornaments used on a costume to the dead...