Word: equalling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spread is open to all members of the University and tickets may be bought at the Phillips Brooks House for $1.25. Last year 400 students attended this annual function and the sale of tickets up to the present show that an equal number will probably be present this year...
...abroad, however, there seems to be a compensation in that they will probably bring back goodly portions of the laurels with them. America has such insuperable advantages of size and abundance of material to draw from that, much to the regret of many who would see a more equal division of the spoils, it is more than likely that her unbroken string of victories will be continued. But the thrills of the contest will be as strong as ever, the tourist army will have a new objective for its interest, and the defeated competitors can look forward...
...Passed through second reading the Equal Franchise ("Votes for Flappers") Bill, after a stormy session during which Earl Balfour warned: "If you do not pass this bill you will wake up to find . . . that the House of Lords has been abolished...
...their intimate advertising ? Fisk with its fetching "time- to-re-tire" child, Hood with its blue uniformed traffic arrester. Kelly-Springfield has definitely associated its tires with the most expensive makes of motor cars; deliberately it has made itself the "class" supplier. Miller has made its tire reputation equal its early reputation for druggist sundries. Less important than these are Ajax and Manhattan...
Upwards of 40 men felt that they had an advanced knowledge of at least one foreign language and a fairly good knowledge of another. Many of these admitted that they were either concentrating in modern languages or that they were honor students. About an equal number were willing to stake themselves on an adequate knowledge of one language but confessed to ignorance of a second. A few said that they knew both French and German slightly but neither well enough to read them with ease or pleasure. At least a dozen of the Seniors interviewed declared that their linguistic capacities...