Word: equalled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...might have been happier; a good resounding denunciation from the Liberty League would have been a great help to him. But he still had the situation apparently well under control. It was conceded that his leaders could whip his bill through the House. The Senate was divided into approximately equal thirds: one-third opposed to the bill (half of them Republicans), one-third in favor of the bill, one-third still on the fence. The Democrats who had declared themselves divided about 2-to-1 in favor of his plan. If by putting on pressure he could get the gentlemen...
...compensation for the unexpected failure of its football team to go through the year undefeated. For Purdue, Big Ten Champions for the past three years, the victory meant an approximate quadruple tie with Illinois, Minnesota and Michigan, at the top of the Conference standing, a good chance to equal a classic Conference record by winning its fourth basketball championship in a row. The deadlock, in the tightest Big Ten basketball season in years, did not last long. Two nights later, Illinois, which had played one more game and won more than the other leaders, held its advantage with a 48to...
...University's plant experiment station in Berkeley are a number of shallow tanks made of wood, concrete, metal. From some of these tanks grow thick, towering clumps of tomato plants bearing rich red clusters of fruit. From other tanks and in an equal state of vigor grow potatoes, tobacco, gladioli, begonias. The roots of the plants are not in soil but in chemically treated water...
...writhes under his pricks it may yet fashion a pearl. Thrice blest is Columbia's selection of him to give the series of lectures. It gives him a pulpit for his doctrines and affords his many supporters a chance to hear him teach once more. To an equal extent the University increases its honor and reputation...
...acquired from the Sultan of Turkey. It was a far cry from the Sublime Porte to the icy Russian steppes, but Pushkin bridged the distance, uniting in himself these diverse strains, for as an American critic has said, "the poet was proud of his mixed blood and flaunted with equal ostentation his aristocratic and his Negro origins...