Word: equalling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lonely. With the bounty of a childless woman, she lavishes affection on her blonde niece Betty Tyson, whose Newport coming-out party in 1945 was the gaudiest shindig since before the war. Her restlessness has found outlets in her parties and such causes as the women's equal-rights amendment, for which she has lobbied tirelessly for years. With unconscious wistfulness, she explains: "Only the busy person is happy...
When Stan Priddy's freshman hockey team meets Yale at New Haven this afternoon, it will get another of its few chances to see how ice actually feels underfoot. With scarcely any practise time behind them, the Yardling skaters will have to fight hard to beat a squad--supposedly equal on paper that can boast a long string of practise sessions in recent weeks...
...such a good thing when it first came out, has not only been steadily increasing its prices but lately taken to putting flashy dust-jackets on its issues in an apparent attempt to cover up the deteriorating quality of its insides. The catalogue of Modern Library is still without equal, but Rinchart's thick paper at least allows the student to read only one page at a time, a fine old custom that Modern Library readers long ago gave up when they once mastered the technique of reading page 2 through page...
...March, 1947, nationalists believed their 40-year-old cause at last victorious when they signed the Lingajatti Agreement with the Dutch, according them de facto recognition. There was no dispute about ends; both the Republic and Holland desired a United States of Indonesia which would win equal status with the Netherlands in a new commonwealth. A serious quarrel developed over means, however. The Agreement provided for each State to determine freely its relation to the U.S.I. and to the Netherlands. Fearing to unlcash the Republic altogether lost it decide against inclusion later on, the Dutel, demanded strict control...
...John Chase's team has a lot more at stake tonight than the Bulldogs. In order to tie for the Pentagonal League lead, the varsity must beat Yale twice and Princeton once. To do this, the Crimson has one crucial advantage. Harvard has three high-scoring lines of almost equal ability, and this depth could conceivably provide the margin of victory...