Word: equalled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Says phrase-coining Senator Reynolds: "Americanism is revering the faiths of our founders, cherishing freedom of press, speech and religion, equal justice and opportunity under the law for all citizens...
...demonstrated that things of different weight fall at the same rate, that whatever is dropped first lands first. A similar law governs naval races. Nations which start in front tend to stay there. So when Japan last week announced that within six years she planned to have a fleet "equal to that of the strongest naval power," no one took her very literally...
...democracies. If, last September, Germany and Italy had at least three times as many effective fighting planes as England and France combined; if Germany's monthly output was greater in almost the same proportion; and if, at the same time, England had plans to double her fleet and equal Germany in planes and military equipment by 1912--then Chamberlain did not "sell the British Empire for a cup of tea." Germany soon found that, because of the predominantly industrial character of the Sudetenland, her dependence on outside food resources had increased nearly 30 per cent.' Time is on the side...
...huge uranium atom, heaviest of the 92 standard elements, weighs 238 units.* The barium atom weighs 137 units. Since the barium could have originated only as a fragment of the big uranium atom, it was logical to suppose that the latter had cracked asunder, in two nearly equal parts. The release of atomic energy was 200,000,000 electron-volts. Heavy atoms had been "chipped" before -that is, forced to throw off small particles like neutrons-but this was the first time they had been cracked...
...terms of this document, Harvard agreed to pay taxes on property acquired after July 1,1928, the amount to equal the current tax rate each year applied to the assessed value of the unimproved land as of date of purchase. For the past five years this annual payment has hovered around...