Word: tantamount
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more than eight years after his first Indian venture that the cumulus of his experiences, reactions, volitions suddenly crystallized in his mind into what was tantamount to a vision. Figuratively he saw the Galilean walking along an Indian road. He must offer the Christ, not in a Western setting, to which by historic accident he seemed to belong, but in an Indian setting. Thereafter, mostly among the quiet intellectual Brahmans but also among the outcastes, he preached the Christ, not Western, but universal. Him they would accept because they had spiritual accord with the mysticism of his life and suffering...
...modern playwrights. He learned about life in an apothecary's shop and looked down at it later with savage Nordic melancholy. In The Wild Duck he wrote about a man who was the enemy of most people because he told the truth, even when truth-telling was tantamount to telling tales. Gregers Werle, the son of a rich Norwegian mine-owner, suspected that his libertine father had disposed of an old mistress by marrying her to Hialmar Ekdal, the son of a man whom the libertine had ruined. Gregers Werle tattles to Hialmar Ekdal, who is much too little...
...Company last week notified the North Atlantic Steamship Conference that it would withdraw from that body. Inasmuch as it is through the conference that the steamship companies regulate their trans-Atlantic fares and keep equal the fees charged passengers for equivalent services, the Canadian Pacific's withdrawal is tantamount to a declaration, if not of war, then of protest against the practices of a competitor...
...decision is based on the principle of retroactivity, the new law having been passed in January, 1926, and made effective as from 1917. It was this procedure that the Supreme Court judges held contradicted the spirit of the constitution. Moreover, the President, Senor Lombardo held that the penalties were tantamount to confiscation (forfeiture without payment) and were therefore unconstitutional...
...Representatives. Mr. Beck used to be (1900-1903) Assistant U. S. Attorney General. He used to be (1921-1925) U. S. Solicitor General. He is an officer of the Legion d' Honneur, a Commander of the Order of the Crown (Belgian). Since a Vare-machine nomination is tantamount to election, President Charles B. Hall of the Philadelphia City Council announced: "With Senator Vare in the Upper House and Mr. Beck in the Lower House, added prestige will be given not only to our district but to the City of Philadelphia...