Word: equalled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chancellor Chamberlain showed himself a true John Bull of the old school when he said quietly that Britain's payment would be made even though it would unbalance the Budget by a sum equal or superior to that paid...
...Herriot launching into his oration. "Italy is going to pay. Belgium has invoked her incapacity. But we cannot tell the world we cannot pay 480,000,000 francs [$19,000,000]. You are going to ruin our entente with Britain. You are going to prevent our standing on an equal footing with Britain in joint action later on! For 480,000,000 francs, gentlemen, you are going to ruin all that...
...Farmers' National Relief Conference. ¶ Heard Pennsylvania's Beck deliver a scholarly lecture on methods of amending the Constitution. ¶ Received from New York's O'Connor an amendment to the 1929 Reapportionment Act requiring all Congressional districts to be "contiguous, compact and of approximately equal population." The absence of such a provision in the present law compelled the Supreme Court last October to sustain gerrymandering in Mississippi's redistricting. ¶ Heard its first farewell speech from Georgia's "Lame Duck" Lankford. ¶ Passed District of Columbia bills to close local barber shops...
...game started but who had to be removed from the game after ten minutes of play because of physical fatigue. It is, therefore, not as simple as it sounds "to give the game back to the boys to conduct as they wish," for too often their wishes are not equal to their physical strength...
Technically, they say, the French are not the equals of the California engineers, but one has some doubts. The use of music throughout the film shows an imagination, an originality, and an ability to fit the music to the tempo which American films lack. The use of the camera, particularly in the opening scenes showing deck tennis, is equal to Hollywood's best, though not quite up to the standards so definitely set by the serious Germans. In chase scenes, a direct outgrowth of the Mack Sennet tradition, the director outdoes himself in making the sequences, tense with suspense...