Word: equilibrium
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...think it can be said, briefly and soberly, that we have survived the crisis, that an unsteady equilibrium has been established, but that no settlement is in sight and that we are now settling down for the long haul," Stevenson said...
...offered the figures on the frieze of the Parthenon as the most perfect examples of this artistic Humanism and idealism in the Ancient World. They represent that point of equilibrium at which "an inner vitality responds and corresponds to an outer measure," he concluded...
...handkerchiefs notwithstanding, more motives than revenge made people happy over the outcome of Saturday's game. The Class of 1954 realized its ambition of seeing Yale beaten and could graduate content. Other Harvard supporters could take the win over Yale as final proof that local football has regained its equilibrium...
...bacterial world will probably reach an equilibrium, with resistant strains remaining constant, concluded Dr. Dowling. His advice to practitioners: give only one antibiotic at a time (unless there is unusually strong reason for giving more), and give that one no longer than necessary...
...Equilibrium is not the same as health . . . The Spanish economy is in equilibrium, like the Italian economy, like that of Abyssinia . . . Most Frenchmen eat, bathe and warm themselves fairly well in the winter. But little by little, faster and faster, one sees the conditions in which they live becoming medieval in relation to those countries which have managed to stay in the race. Just as Spain has fallen by the wayside, France, if she doesn't wake up, will become the Spain of the second half of the century...