Word: equalled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many of Harvard's higher paid employees, like carpenters, the University plan is more advantageous than the federal act. But as a matter of plain statistical fact the provision which the University makes for its lowest paid employees does not equal the pensions set by the Social Security Act for workers on the same low wage level. Thus a maid who receives a pension of ten dollars a month after thirty-five years under the Harvard plan, would under the Social Security Act receive twenty-five dollars a month...
...President Conant, Harvard and America have one of the most intelligent apostles of democracy. Thomas Jefferson democratically visioned an intellectual aristocracy selected for genius and virtue. Andrew Jackson said that all men were born equal. He envied intellectual pre-eminence and preached the doctrine of equal educational privilege for all. Dr. Conant says that many educators doubt the value even of high school for certain types of students...
...Kasner was lecturing on the theory of big numbers to the members of a kindergarten. When he asked how many raindrops fell on New York City on a rainy day, the scientist got the children to agree that the number was approximately equal to the number of sand grains at Coney Island. One followed by 20 zeros was a satisfactory expression. Dr. Kasner then proposed a greater number, one of his own, which he called a "googol": 1 followed by 100 zeros. He also proposed a much greater number still, a "googol plex": 1 followed by a googol of zeros...
...Harry Lang's gross. Last week Harry Lang announced: "I just wrote the President that I'd be willing to do it the other way around. Let him own the business and let me run it for him for five years at a salary equal to what I'd be paying in taxes. Just five years. That would be $150,000-and I'd sell the business for a whole lot less right...
...These numbers (attendance figures) are about equal to those present at the basketball games. The H. A. A. anticipates an early sale of all tickets for the Harvard-Yale meet of this year, since it could not obtain as many tickets from the Y. A. A. as it had request...