Word: equals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...independence [and] will continue to do so." But he saw that growing nationalism creates political and economic barriers, impeding trade and prosperity "as each new nation steps forward to an independent place in the international family. The emotional urge for a completely independent existence may conflict with an equal desire for higher living standards...
Underlying Disquiet. In this dispute were the beginnings of a real foreign policy debate in Britain. For years now, with the strength of the two great parties almost equal as in the U.S., and with the party in power having captured the politically desirable middle, the opposition has found it hard to seize a good issue. A rigorous repressive policy in Cyprus may yet provide it. At first, Eden's show of firmness uplifted a people disheartened by retreats, but an underlying disquiet remains. The policy of holding "at whatever cost" had the sound of yesterday about...
...like to see how it comes out. Here it is: Take the circumference of the earth in inches. This comes from 3,963.4 x 6.2832 x 5280 x 12 [i.e., radius of earth multiplied by 2π, converted to inches]. Express this as 1.571 x 10^9. Let v equal the electron velocity and c the velocity of light. Then...
...portrait made him one of a distinguished company. Raeburn, an orphaned son of a Scottish millowner and largely self-taught in art, had developed his own technique of painting to the point where, in the eyes of the local aristocracy, he was Scotland's greatest artist and the equal of London's Romney, Lawrence and Gainsborough. A Highland chief, when entertaining him, gave the command: "Bonnets off to Sir Henry Raeburn." To his studio in a steady procession came such famed countrymen as Diarist James Boswell, Economist Adam Smith, Philosopher David Hume and Novelist Sir Walter Scott. With...
...millions in Liberia for roads, schools, hospitals, medical-research centers and power plants, once even lent the country $2,500,000 to help get its finances squared away. Says he: "It is only logical for a corporation to realize that the privilege of doing business carries with it an equal responsibility for the overall good of the community...