Word: equilibrium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even last year's stern four was immune to the shifting, and one by one Bolles sent them down to the second boat in an effort to put some life into his "Varsity". At length an equilibrium was reached in which the "second" eight beat the "firsts" continually and conclusively. It then automatically became the Varsity for the rest of the week without benefit of a special declaration, in fact, the Varsity continued to row in the regular Jayvee shell for the duration...
...binge that Rumanian attaches cried "Our King is lost!" until he turned up just in time for the boat train. > Of the present Duke of Windsor, he passed the peculiar judgment: "I have great hopes for the reign of Edward VIII. He is a man endowed with rare equilibrium -rare equilibrium!" > After years of Rumanian misrule, when he was chased out of the country by the Nazi Iron Guard he was forced to leave behind millions in royal loot, but managed to gjet away with sums estimated as high...
...cracked open anti-union fronts, had won new contracts boosting wages. In one year C.I.O. had added to the wages of its members, according to Murray, some $1,250,000,000-though, at a time when inflation threatened, many an economist doubted whether this would add to economic equilibrium...
...impose on conquered Europe if she can. This would mean a reduced standard of living, and I doubt not a reduction in the German population. Since there are only 45 million Britons, 45 million Italians, 40 million Frenchmen and 30 million Poles, as opposed to 80 million Germans, the equilibrium of Europe would be more stable if there were only 50 million Germans...
...meant kindly. But may I reply that it has hurt me more than unjust and malevolent judgments from opponents. . . .")-And like Newman's, Rauschning's apologia is no apology at all, but a careful and courageous examination of his course, revealing great probity, political acumen, intellectual equilibrium...