Word: equalling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...repeated too often that no demands, however great, made on us left at home can equal the sacrifices that those who have answered the call to the colors, may be asked to make. Therefore, anything we can do to lighten their burden we should feel it a privilege...
...libraries, the plant must be kept from destruction; the students must live somewhere and dormitories are approximately as cheap a method of keeping them warm as could be found. Moreover, it has been calculated, that the cost in rule of having the students travel to their homes would equal that of keeping them warm in college dormitories for a number of days...
...able to do so, but the less favored half of the community, including small boys, are held as offenders against the law if they play baseball even out of church hours. It is not a question of legalizing professional baseball on Sunday, but of giving all the people an equal chance to enjoy the day--or else an equal legal restriction that all shall stay at home. Boston Transcript...
...theory at least, but they are not the sole points at issue. To the specific demands of the President, Von Hertling gives evasive, vague and conditional answers. Instead of consenting directly, for instance, to "impartial adjustment of all colonial claims based upon the principle that the peoples' concerns have equal weight with the interest of the Government," the Hun declares that difficulties will be encountered. In like fashion the proposals in regard to Russia are met by the reply that this concerns only Russia and the Central Powers. So it is with every particular point demanded by the Allies...
Since the United States has pledged itself to make the world safe for democracy, it behooves the nation to assure a democracy at home. War is bringing and will bring equal burdens to the men and to the women of the United States. It is only right, it is only just that the women have a voice in the momentous decisions that will affect them just as much...