Word: equalled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Punch in the document, however, was not equal to the punch in Franklin Roosevelt's voice as he read his message to a press conference an hour before it was delivered to Congress and the Supreme Court. He beamed at newshawks with evident exuberance. He fairly smacked his lips over his adroit phrasing, revealing to the Press by intonation and ironic interjection his exhilaration over the most daring stroke he had yet attempted: his long-awaited blow to break the deadlock between the New Deal and the Supreme Court...
...equal of Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt in effortless daily discharge of endless public duties has for years been the Empire's popular "Smiling Duchess," that aboundingly healthy Scotswoman who is now Queen-Empress Elizabeth. Suddenly last week His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for India, the Marquess of Zetland, announced that new King George had told him the scheduled Coronation Durbar at New Delhi cannot take place next winter for reasons having to do with Queen Elizabeth's "health." The official announcement voiced vague "hope" that in some other year the Durbar of George & Elizabeth...
Throughout the game the Feslermen showed the effects of the mid-year period, for they handled the ball tensely, passed poorly, and missed many shots. Vernon Struck's consistent hard playing was not sufficient to equal the coordination and alacrity of Coach Cowles...
...Europe. Last week, with Escapade well out of the way, MGM allowed the original Masquerade in Vienna to appear in the U. S. for the first time. Many critics declared it better than its celebrated copy. The lead is played by the experienced European actress, Paula Wessely, who fully equals Actress Rainer's performance but is unlikely to equal her rise, for she refused a Hollywood contract...
Last week in Manhattan, with no impunity except his own brilliance, Chicago's Hutchins shredded the complacency of nearly 1,000 members of the New York State Bar Association with an indictment of the limited notion lawyers have of their profession. Then, with equal candor, he propounded his philosophy of law on which he built a program for legal education. Then he dared the Bar really to reform legal education. His dramatic appeal did not come kindly to all the listening legalists in the Waldorf-Astoria ballroom, but they voted him an honorary member of their Bar in admiration...