Word: equalling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time he was 50, Sloan had sold only six serious paintings. To stay alive he did magazine illustrating and taught art. Nowadays he makes a modest living from his painting, but it is his early pictures that sell. Sloan himself looks back on his "Ashcan" oils with an equal mixture of nostalgia and pride. "Young people won't realize," he says mildly, "how sweet . . . sweet and sad Manhattan was before Prohibition. The new skyline looks like a broken comb. We're the dirt between the teeth, unfortunately. And who wants to paint a street all strewn with automobiles...
...disturbed people by his goodness. He called himself "a Hindu of Hindus," and yet he put many a professing Christian to shame. "The spirit of the Sermon on the Mount," wrote the man who fitted the rubrics of the Beatitudes more comfortably than most Christians, "competes almost on equal terms with the Bhagavad-Gita for the domination of my heart...
...better." But beyond that there seemed little chance of agreement between the parties opposing Dev. Clann workers scrawled "Is your trip really necessary?" on posters showing a De Valera rampant with the Fianna slogan, "We are ready to resume the advance." But with equal enthusiasm Laborite heelers amended MacBride posters proclaiming "A New Deal" with the words "Yes, but with the same old pack...
...Missouri, where a "separate but equal" law school has had its longest test, the powerful St. Louis Post-Dispatch pronounced it a "mistake." Said the PD: it costs only $228 a year to educate each white law student at the University of Missouri. But the state must pay $807 for each law student in the separate school-and the 44 Negroes still don't get a really equal education. Admitting Negroes to University of Missouri graduate schools, said the PD, was "the one best way" to correct an "expensive error...
...Henry Ford had grown big making little cars; when he made bigger cars, (Lincoln and Mercury) he did not do as well. Young Henry Ford II thought he knew why: the bigger cars had always been subordinated to the manufacture of Fords. Last week, to give equal emphasis to all Ford-made automobiles, Young Henry set up the Lincoln-Mercury Division of Ford Motor Co. as a nearly autonomous unit, connected to the parent company only by policy and financial control...