Word: equalled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christianity has been spread in the East not only by missionaries but by the native Easterners whom they converted to the task. Most important aspect of the International Missionary Council meeting in Madras, India last December (TIME, Dec. 26) was that there, for the first time, Orientals mingled in equal numbers and on equal footing with Westerners. To show in their own persons what missionary Christianity is really like, last week some black, brown and yellow delegates from Madras were telling churchgoers in the U. S. about the Council meeting...
...Shubert Theatre. Within shagging distance, at the neighboring Paramount, was Artie Shaw, young pretender to the throne, and his band, which in six months has zoomed to fame on the strength of a few rousing records. A clear-cut battle for supremacy was forecast: the theatres are of approximately equal size; each was showing a Grade B film; and the acts accompanying the bands were similar. Both leaders are ace clarinetists...
...week's end Benny Goodman could claim technical victory. Box-office receipts were approximately equal ($24,000), but the Paramount, where Artie Shaw was playing, had a 99? top to the Shubert's 75?. Addicts of Shaw's exciting recordings of Begin the Beguine and Backbay Shuffle were disappointed by their idol's cold stage personality. Goodman's matchless trio and quartet and the smooth rendition of old favorites like One O'Clock Jump and Don't Be That Way won back wavering allegiance...
Founded in 1937 by the bequest of Mrs. Agnes Wahl Nieman, in memory of her husband, the founder of the Milwaukee Journal, "to promote and elevate the standards of journalism in the United States," the Fellowships give their recipients an annual stipend approximately equal to their salaries...
...unfortunate truth that the Newtonian theory "for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction" does not apply so accurately in the field of human relations as it does in the field of natural science. Professor Percy Bridgman, famed member of the University's Physics Department, has ignored this truth in his recent "Manifesto by a Physicist," and the omission has had repercussions which already have increased the gravity of the initial offense. Scientists from all over the country have been endorsing Bridgman's stand until now it seems likely that this individual protest may well become the spearhead...