Word: equalling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wish to enter a protest against your use of dashes in your Letters columns when you delete profanity. I approve the deletions, but I see no good reason why you should pique the curiosity of your occasionally profane readers by having all dashes of equal length...
Secondly, it might seem impossible to devise a satisfactory way of betting on the British General Election as a whole, because the result may leave any one of the three parties or any two of them in power. Theoretically, should a roughly equal number of seats be won by each of the three parties, then after the election there might be formed any one of three different coalitions-Conservative-Liberal, Liberal-Laborite, or Conservative-Laborite-to carry on the Government. The King-Emperor would be obliged (by custom) to bestow the supreme political office of Prime Minister...
...glance at the quotation board, last week, showed that "The City" expects to see the Conservatives and Laborites matched against each other as two nearly equal Goliaths-with Liberalism's small David Lloyd George twirling between them in his slingshot the dangerous pellet called "balance of power." By allying himself with either Goliath, smart Little David would lay the other low; and although he can scarcely hope to hold the Prime Ministry himself, he could keep the unfortunate incumbent of that office on the hooks...
There is, of course, no good reason why the professional executive should not be successful in many and varied lines. The emphasis in U. S. industry has shifted from production to distribution, and a distribution expert should be able to function with equal facility whether he is distributing Montgomery Ward merchandise or Johns-Manville roofings. Furthermore, he is always working with other executives who have grown up with the company. Thus President Brown has as his Board Chairman William R. Seigle, who has been with Johns-Manville for 29 years...
...moral. Why not have female ministers? Prim reactionary Presbyterians shuddered at the thought that the Princeton or Auburn Theological Seminary might become coeducational. Advanced non-alarmist thinkers like Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, President of Union Theological Seminary, Manhattan, said: "I welcome the proposal . . . that women be given an equal standing with men in the church." The Proposal. In Philadelphia, 140 years ago, met the first general assembly of the Presbyterian church. The women kept their silence. Nearly 100 years later the first woman's executive committee of Home Missions was appointed. Since then women have become increasingly vocal...