Word: equalled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...broad jump with a new Olympic record (26 ft., 5 21/64 in.). On the fourth, he won the 200-metre dash with a new world's record (20.7 sec.) for a track with a turn. Finally, selected for the U. S. 400-metre relay team, he helped it equal the world's record in a trial heat, break it winning the final...
Whether the rubbernecks' grandstand, Director LeRoy's gratitude and even the qualities of the picture itself will cause the LeRoy version of Anthony Adverse to equal the success of the Allen version is exceedingly debatable. As hard-breathing, swashbuckling sword-&-cloak melodrama it is good but not superlative...
...discharged its Constitutional obligation to Negroes by chartering Lincoln as a "University" in 1921. If Negroes wanted to study law, said they, Lincoln should teach it. NAACP attorneys demanded to know how the State of Missouri could blow hot by claiming that its black and white colleges were equal, blow cold by allowing its University to reject Lincoln credits. That Lincoln was itself a "University" they denied, recalling that the $500,000 granted it to set up graduate schools had been thrown out as unconstitutional by Missouri's Supreme Court...
Last week Professor Wilfred William Robbins of University of California's College of Agriculture announced that weeds cost the U. S. $3,000,000,000 a year. With weed waste included, the annual U. S. wastage appears to be equal to nearly one half of the national income, which was $53,000,000,000 last year...
...afternoon last week a crowd of 3,000. including 1,000 Philco and N. Y. Shipbuilding Corp. sympathizers, went after RCA employes as they filed out of the plant. Bricks, stones and clubs flew freely in a two-hour pitched battle (see cuts). Next day another skirmish of equal fury took place. Sitting as a committing magistrate, Justice Lloyd held 121 strikers and sympathizers in the prohibitive bail of $615,500. Public sympathy, at first with RCA, veered to the strikers...