Word: equalled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stepping stone to the Presidency, Uncle Dan Roper of Marlboro County, S. C. seemed like a very small potato indeed in a very big box. His training for the job consisted of clerking in Congress, working in President Wilson's Post Office Department (as the co-equal of his contemporary, Assistant Secretary of the Navy F. D. Roosevelt), later on the Tariff Commission and as Internal Revenue Commissioner. From 1921 until after the election of Franklin Roosevelt in 1932 he was a workaday Washington lawyer. Helping to swing his friend Senator McAdoo's delegates from Garner to Roosevelt...
...Court found that 1) Gaines was admittedly qualified to enter University of Missouri's Law School, and 2) Missouri could not shift to another State its constitutional duty to provide equal educational opportunities for all citizens, whatever their color. Reversing Missouri's courts, the U. S. Supreme Court ordered Missouri to admit Lloyd Gaines to its State university or give him legal training at Lincoln University...
...fear and hysteria being engendered among the American people for ... political purpose. ... A nation so scared and so burdened financially is not in a condition to lick anybody. And then, who in hell are we afraid of? With Japan absorbed . . . with the balance of power so nearly equal in Europe, where is there an ounce of naval or military strength free to threaten...
...spite of the suddenness of the move six members of the Faculty and an equal number of Student and Cambridge organizations immediately endorsed the plan which aims to promote peace and solidarity among the nations of the Western Hemisphere...
...invited in to look it over. They saw three stories of offices, four auditorium studios (two of them with stages bigger than any other in radio), seven smaller studios. Each auditorium seat was upholstered in material as sound-absorbent as the average spectator and his clothes, to provide equal acoustical values for rehearsals in empty studios and broadcasts played to packed houses. (This trick was used earlier in Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, is upset only by an uncommonly dressy audience. For starched-shirt bosoms are poor absorbers, bounce sounds back toward the stage.) Unseen were 20 miles...