Word: equalled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stores, led Sears Roebuck in 1925 to begin opening retail stores. By 1929 it had upwards of 300 stores, today 400. This year, as it happens, the firm is again back to about the 1929 level of business. Results for the first six months indicate that sales will nearly equal 1929's total of $443,000,000 and profits will reach, if not 1929's $30,000,000, the $25,000,000-$27,000,000 level of 1927-28. The difference is that whereas the greater proportion of 1929 sales was by mail order, today mail orders account...
...this welter of jokes, proverbs, signs, schoolboy howlers, stories, wisecracks, the character of the people gradually emerges, hardbitten, hardworking, unaffected, forever asking two great questions that set the theme of the book: "Where to? What next?" Sandburg puts down with equal approbation a catalog of the casual heroisms of everyday work, the hazards of steelmaking, of mining, of railroading. He records the last words of a wireless operator on a sinking ship ("This is no night to be out without an umbrella!") and the names of railroads: The Delay Linger and Wait is the D. L. & W., the Delaware, Lackawanna...
...Philippines to conducting a colleague on a round-the-world tour in the interest of the fight against tuberculosis, from persuading Haile Selassie to cooperate in the struggle against yellow fever to leading a campaign against polished rice in the South Seas. Vigorous, informative, complacent, he discourses with equal animation on the history and treatment of leprosy, on his experiences in swimming in shark-infested waters, his friendship with the Prince of Wales, his meeting with King Humbert of Italy his kind trickery in disposing of 26 healtny children born of leprous parents...
...biology. Organic substances are rich in hydrogen. Professor Ernest Orlando Lawrence of the University of California, whose huge apparatus produces a beam of 10,000,000 neutrons a second, finds that on the white blood cells of rats neutrons exert ten times the destructive effect of X rays of equal intensity. As laid down last month in the American Journal of Roentgenology and Radium Therapy, the biologic neutron problems now confronting science are these...
...Giuseppe Moretti, of Siena, Italy. Faces beamed around the luncheon table, for Sculptor Moretti, at that time a tombstone designer for New England granite concerns, was the first artist of any ability to plump for Alabama marble as a medium for sculpture, insisted loudly that it was quite the equal of Carrara...