Word: equalling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fair" tennis player, taking his honesty for granted and meaning, obviously, to indicate that he played tennis "fairly well." A "fair" golfer is one who scores between 85 and 95 on an eighteen average holes. A "fair" tennis player is one who can play backhand or forehand with almost equal facility, and beat approximately half the able-bodied male playing members of his country club, in case he belongs...
...Equal credit will be given to Pathe and to the Harvard savants in the production and disposition of the anthropological films. Several expeditions are being planned by the University for the purpose of collecting additional anthropological materials, and cameramen to take moving pictures of these expeditions will be supplied by the moving picture firm...
...tell its inhabitants the worst about their city streets and subways. He finds that the streets of New York are less noisy than those of Chicago, whether because silent powder is not used in Chicago guns he does not say; but the roar of the New York subways, equal to that of an airplane motor in the protected ears of an aviator, exposes New Yorkers to a greater volume of should than that in any other city. As to Boston, he says that the purpose of his presence in that place became known to the public, who accordingly refrained from...
...thin black back, to listen to the superb and golden music which he has been able to coax from his musicians. Reiner, the first of the guest conductors who will replace him this year, they knew would be acceptable; but they did not see how he could equal Stokowski; they waited anxiously...
...equal Stokowski but he proved, by the thorough excellence of his performance, that the Philadelphia Orchestra was more than a tool for the musical genius of one man. In a hodge-podge of Handel, Stravinsky, Aaron Copland and Saint-Saens, the first was the best. Beside the Firework-Music (written so long ago as 1749 to celebrate the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle) Stravinsky's virtuosity seemed pale, Copland's Scherzo, flimsy. Pianist Josef Hofmann gave the evening a special glitter by an interpretation of the C Minor Concerto which was more profound than Saint-Saens'music...