Word: equalled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...broke hearts & homes. A balanced budget, he thought, will break fewer hearts than have been broken by the unbalanced budget of the last three years. Franklin Roosevelt entered the White House last March under a solemn campaign pledge to cut Government costs 25%, and to make ordinary Treasury receipts equal ordinary expenditures. Herbert Hoover handed him over the 1933 budget-a pale sick thing two-thirds gone and beyond salvation. But beginning July 1 President Roosevelt was master in his own financial household. Discharged employes might commit suicide but the President was prepared to economize as even Calvin Coolidge never...
...University of Washington girls' performances helped their professor of education, Dr. August Dvorak, toward fortune. For Dr. Dvorak invented the arrangement of letters and symbols on the typewriter keyboards with which his students won at Chicago. The Dvorak-Dealey* Simplified Keyboard attempts 1) to make both hands do equal amounts of work while typing and 2) to prevent fingers interfering with one another. For example, by study of 35 million digraphs (two-letter combinations) in English words, Professor Dvorak & aides found that 10½ million must be stroked on the standard "Universal" Keyboard† by awkward linger reaches...
...Delegates nerved themselves to present two statements of U. S. policy, the first of which they feared might wreck the Conference then and there. It must be sold adroitly to French Finance Minister Georges Bonnet or he might walk out of the Conference. Mild Mr. Hull, feeling perhaps not equal to the job, chose as his Delegation's super salesmen James Middleton Cox and sleek, persuasive Manhattan banker-expert James P. Warburg. Salesmen Cox & Warburg took the Frenchman into an inner committee room, M. Bonnet protesting that since President Roosevelt was known to oppose dollar stabilization "the alternative...
...holes. Next day, Scott made matters easy by piling up a 5-hole lead in the morning. In the afternoon he won match, title, the distinction of being the oldest Amateur Champion on record and the assurances of old John Ball that there was "still plenty of time" to equal an even more imposing record...
Allotment of the overflow might be made on an equal basis to the dining halls and libraries of each of the Houses. In view of the fact that so many expensive suites will be vacant in each House, the dining arrangements should be equal to the emergency. To obviate the criticism that House members might be paying for privileges enjoyed by outsiders, a fee of ten dollars could be charged for the use of a House library. Clearly the situation must be avoided in the future through more cautious admission and downward revisions in rental scales, but these expedients would...