Word: equal
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...horns of New Year's Eve their conflicting stories of what 1940 would bring rang throngh the wintry Capital, left Presidential booms busting like toy balloons, the paper streamers of old prophecies littering the streets. Correspondents said that the session of Congress would be short and asserted, with equal vehemence, that it would be long. Peering into the New Year they could see through the darkness as far as an election-it will be a lively one, said the New York Times, "in which hard words will scorch the air and the ether, but it will be an election...
...itself Verdun makes clear Remains' distinction as a novelist, and it is considerable. It lies in the fact that he has been able to fuse the detachment of a social historian with the vision of a creative artist. From a formal standpoint Verdun proves him at least the equal of any modern writer who has employed the same method...
...years the U. S. has made much of its diplomatic inexperience. If the classic picture of a British diplomat is a well-read University man, trained to translate Rimbaud or snub the Estonian minister with equal aplomb, the classic figure of the U. S. diplomatist is a man who knows no foreign language, mixes up seating arrangements, and is just learning as he goes along. U. S. foreign service bags at the knees, pretends that its hearing is not very good, cannot dance, has only a vague idea of what is going on, is cheerfully disparaged by the populace...