Word: equalled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late great Guy de Maupassant boasted that he could weave a short story around any subject, proved it when he was challenged to write one on a piece of string. Franklin Roosevelt could boast with equal assurance of his ability to turn any thing, event, theme or person to his own polemical uses, whether it be a national park, Thomas Jefferson, a dam, Andrew Jackson, the Louisiana Purchase or the taking of Fort Vincennes. Last week it was a bridge. Up to New York City went the President to help dedicate the $60,300,000 Triborough Bridge, biggest PWA project...
...know it can't be done halfway. I can't sit comfortably on my plush pillows and tell others what to do to be happy, but I will be able to tell anyone anything, when I am able to meet them, eye to eye, on an equal footing. ... In case you think that's a phoney halo I'm trying to tie up on my bean, this is Elsie. I just want to be happy, and I'm going to be, as soon as I can do everything for everybody that I want...
...14th Chapter of St. John when he died 20 years ago, Lawrence Saint used his memorial windows to show eight scenes from the same Gospel. Decked in calm crimsons, blues and yellows, like their 13th Century counterparts, Mr. Saint's saints & sinners glowed from the glass with equal clarity. A cringing Peter denied his Lord. Judas fingered his 30 pieces of silver. Jesus announced to Thomas, "I am the Truth." Jews in the Temple treasury were told, "The truth shall make you free...
...contests-to announce which the Committee did not even bother, when the loudspeakers broke down, to furnish an amateur badge-wearer with a second-hand megaphone-were in athletic merit probably equal, if not superior to those which a cosmopolitan crowd of 100.000 will witness in Berlin's Olympic Stadium next month. In twelve of the scheduled events, the U.S. has competitors who have made better times or distances than any European rivals. In the five remaining events, the entrants at the Randalls Island meet were, by & large, as competent as the entrants in the same events will...
...statisticians had not got around to a breakdown of salaries by industries, had made only a partial one in the matter of taxation. Oil companies' taxes amounted to 120% of payrolls, 25% of sales, 676% of dividends. Next came public utilities with taxes equal to 59% of payrolls, 16% of sales, 90% of dividends. Urged NAM: "Let the American people turn the same spotlight of public attention on taxes that has been turned on executive salaries...