Word: equally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...football at the two colleges Crimson quarterback Barry Wood and Eli halfback Albie Booth staged battles that were watched by every sport fan in the land. Still, when the ancient opponents take the field each year, a certain element exists which the trumped-up "big-time" clashes cannot equal--a hint of greatness, and a sprit of competition that has existed since 1875, when Harvard beat Yale, four goals and four touchdowns to nothing, in the series' first game...
...greatly on the stage." "Great" was a word Mr. Ciardi felt he couldn't escape that day. "J.B. is a great dramatization of the human position," he wrote; "great themes can be truly engaged only by great art. MacLeish's triumph is that he has been equal to his great theme...
Soviet astronomy ranks high. Professor Donald Menzel, head of Harvard College Observatory, found Russian astronomers equal to their U.S. colleagues in imagination and ability. Pulkovo Observatory at Leningrad, which has a scientific staff of 400, is particularly fine. The Russians have some excellent men in astrophysics-such as L. S. Shklovsky, who proved that the glow of the Crab Nebula is caused by high-speed electrons passing through the nebula's magnetic field-but top performers are not numerous...
...return for the jobs, the Council and other groups around the country who are taking part in the exchange must find positions for an equal number of European students. Other participants include Yale and Columbia...
...Hamlet, The Town) remains a smoldering personal testament to the worst in the American South and the worst in man. Edison, by Matthew Josephson. An able biography of the deaf, eccentric, agnostic genius who may not have been the world's greatest inventor, but who had no equal as an inventor-promoter...