Word: equal
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...reason: five railroads compete for the New York to Chicago traffic; one of them on an equal speed basis with New York Central. There is no other Boston-to-Chicago railroad system...
...problem of the English Department is to find men of a calibre equal to that of those men who have contributed to its distinction. Excellence in a faculty does not consist in a static retention of first class men, but in the ability to find men who can fill their places when the necessity arrives. The greatness of any department lies above all in the maintenance of an average of undoubted excellence...
...requires constant alertness on the part of University officials to maintain a faculty which can be of consistently high quality from year to year. The greatest efforts must be made to attract men of stimulating interest to the college, and an equal effort made to facilitate their work here in order that they may have that freedom which is essential to really successful teaching...
...accordance with educational theory, but there seem to be not a few practical objections to it. The game cannot be likened to a course examination because the former concerns a group directly, while the latter is the affair of an individual. If the strategy of the game were the equal concern of every player, this objection could be set aside. It is, however, impossible to conduct a baseball game with nine men on the strategy board. And therefore the mistakes of the captain would affect not only himself but the entire team...
...songs. Pianists José Iturbi, Harold Bauer, Josef Lhevinne, Ernest Hutcheson, Harold Samuel, John Erskine, Rudolph Ganz and Olga Samaroff formed a three-team relay for a Bach concerto. A whimsical Sinfonia Domestica, 1929, conducted by John Philip Sousa, had Pianists Bauer and Schelling pushing lawnmowers while others of equal renown played on typewriters...