Word: equalled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mahatma Gandhi I felt I ... had met my parent. ... It was like finding something that I had lost. . . . The political side of Gandhi is the least part of him. As a moral teacher and reformer the world has not known his equal since Buddha and Christ. He made no attempt to convert me from Christianity. I am not an orthodox Hindu. The Mahatma did not baptize me or immerse me in the holy Ganges, as has been reported. Gandhi hates conversion and believes that all religions are good...
...experimental stage, to jeopardize its success would be unwise. The main objection concerns student waiting in itself. In the Harvard of the past there was a too well marked division between wealthy and needy. Today every effort is bent towards placing all members of the University on as nearly equal a footing as possible, and student waiting militates against the development of a healthy social atmosphere. Extension of it, as a long-run policy, is not wise...
Although the temptation to political prophecy in regard to the German situation is inevitable, it is probably unsafe in equal proportion. In recent years the German people have stood for so much in regard to the suspension of their constitutional rights, the establishment of a virtual dictatorship, and the rule of a party which has been steadily declining in prestige, power and numbers since the war, that the foreign observer cannot possibly gage the point where that endurance will end. The refusal of Hitler to take over the government makes plausible the guess that the time is not yet ripe...
...literature and eating roast pig (porcellus). Its reputation springs from the wealth and social swank of its membership which has included Holmeses, Lowells, Belmonts, Adamses, Roosevelts, Bonapartes, Carrolls, Lodges. Its club house on Massachusets Avenue overlooks the Yard. Porcellian's favorite beverage was Golden Gate, a concoction of equal parts of gin and beer. At club dinners all members must be primed to sing solo...
...employe plan was a five-year savings system under which any employe could deposit with the company up to 20% of his earnings, with a $300 maximum figure. The company contributed an amount equal to one half this deposit, which was used to buy G. M. shares. This contributed sum was turned over to the subscribing employes at the end of five years, together with interest at 6% on their savings. Employes sharing in the 1931 distribution numbered 30,222. They had invested $3,580,000 in 1926 on which interest came to $1,343,000. The value...