Word: equal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University Travel Company, College students' orders for plane and train tickets were about equal, while there was little demand for bus seats...
...throw line, both teams were automatic, setting a new combined collegiate game Garden record of 36 charity tosses sunk. Five men, including McCurdy, Henry, and Gannon left the game late in the second half as a result of these fouls. If the Crimson had hit from the floor with equal success, the complexion of the game might have changed. Coach Barclay's men swished only 9 out of 39 field-goal tries in the first half, 15 out of 52 in the second...
...performers, many traveling over the globe for MRA, more than lends an excitement sufficient in itself to justify the expenditure of an evening and to pose the pressing question of what MRA will mean given real momentum. The idealistic drive of this movement finds rare equal at the present moment. In utter seriousness the show's participants call themselves a "task force." They feel themselves engaged in a crusade to save civilization. MRA's overriding interest rests not in its feverish adherents so much as in the social elements to which the appeal goes forth. "The Good Road" plays before...
...good man to stand up to the tough, exacting work. Those who find it too tough soon leave of their own accord. Hence it is only the best riders, ropers and wranglers who have stayed and perpetuated their kind. Result: today's vaqueros are probably the best, or equal to the best, cowboys in the world. Their pay is low. With keep it amounts to about $150 a month, but the ranch takes care of them in sickness and old age, and they have a feudal loyalty to the ranch. To outsiders, the ranch is a curious mixture...
...when the ranch trusteeship expired, the property was divided among the heirs.* The Klebergs got 431,000 acres and formed the King Ranch Corp. with Bob as president and manager, and Dick, then a Congressman, as chairman. The stock is held in equal fifths by Bob, Dick, their sisters Henrietta (wife of Celanese Corp. Vice President John A. Larkin), Mrs. Alice East, and the two sons of Sarah (who was killed in an auto accident). By purchase, Bob Kleberg has built the ranch's holdings up to 750,000 acres, leased 140,000 more to the corporation from...