Word: equalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appeal of the book is extremely limited. To the general reader it is bound to be about equally dull, confusing, ridiculous, and shocking. It is a book compounded in equal parts of the most painfully literal and the most elusively symbolic. The combination is a shade trying. And there is an irritating lack of humor. It is hard to sympathize with anyone who takes himself as seriously as do both Mr. Anderson and his hero. It is altogether too easy to allow one's sense of the ab- surdity of a good many of its episodes to cloud...
Professor Chase mentioned that all archaeologists are especially pleased in seeing Lord Carnavron's party so richly rewarded because of the many years of diligent research which it has carried on, and in conclusion said, "the explorers are working under the old law, which provides for the equal division of the objects found between the Museum of Cairo and the discoverer; a system which would seem to destroy any hope of maintaining the whole collection as a unit, which would be the only way in which it can keep its present importance as the complete funeral equipage of an Egyptian...
...there is another contest that calls for almost equal interest. The Glee Club's successive victories in the intercollegiate competitions have gradually raised the standard of college singing until the University's supremacy is seriously in doubt. The verdict of the judges in New York tonight will be almost as good news-matter as the hockey score...
PEER GYNT-Ibsen's poetic phantasmagoria of self-sufficient compromise, with expressionist settings Joseph Schildkraut is the braggart Peer, whose age and locality change with equal celerity...
Against Cornell and Dartmouth, the track team will be put to an equal strain, and will have its first important chance to prove itself under Captain Burke and its new coach. The Dartmouth coach has devised an "equation of victory"--but he overlooks the unknown "x," the element of extra strength that the University trackmen will be able to call up against such worthy opponents...