Word: equalled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...distribute the silk. They expect to sell about half (the poorer grades) in Japan and the Orient, the better grades in the U. S. and Europe. Because it was understood that henceforth Japan will try to stabilize silk only by urging smaller production and because the visible supply was equal to only a three-month supply, raw silk merchants last week were inclined to be bullish...
...days the trial was delayed while the prosecution rounded up some alienists of its own to swear with equal positiveness that Lieut. Massie was sane when Kahahawai was shot. Lawyer Darrow would not allow Dr. Joseph Catton and Paul Bowers, both also of California, to examine his client. But that did not prevent the pair from testifying after a perusal of the court record...
...ruled as Premier of Prussia for eleven years at the head of a rock-firm Socialist-Centrist coalition, was still last week in power. It was estimated that Dr. Braun will be able to muster 162 seats when the Diet convenes in June. Thus his coalition strength would exactly equal the strength of the Fascist Party alone. But Adolf Hitler can probably count on the support of "The Little Man In Blue," Dr. Alfred Hugenberg. newspaper tycoon and Nationalist leader. A Hitler-Hugenberg-Splinter-party coalition would muster 203 seats, only nine short of a majority in the Diet...
WITH the recent deaths of Lytton Strachey and Gamaliel Bradford, Andre Maurois remains as the most prominent living biographer. (Apologies to Mr. Philip Guedalla who, fortunately or unfortunately, has not been accorded notice equal to Mr. Maurois). The members of this trio had much in common: they were the leaders in the art of "modern biography" and together they stood far aloof from all their cheap, novelizing imitators. Mr. Maurois began writing biography much later than either of his late contemporaries and he probably owes much to both of them. But he has a purpose and a method...
...superior learning of a Ph.D.," continued Father Sill," is wasted on the ears of bored Freshmen; only through talented and, above all, enthusiastic teachers, can their interest be properly aroused. Obviously, a teacher must know his subject, and the more he knows about it, the better, other things being equal; the point to be emphasized is the diminishing importance of successive additions to a teacher's scholastic accomplishments, beyond a certain point. Thus, among a group of prospective teachers who have a comprehensive, if unspecialized grasp of a subject, the scholastic attainment of individuals in the group, compared to their...