Word: equalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...first and second Manassas, the Seven Days' Battle, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Antietam, the Wilderness. When McClellan invaded Virginia, Stuart's 80-mile, 24-hour raid across his rear with 1,800 troopers and four guns established what Capt. Thomason thinks is a record: "I know of no equal exploit in the cavalry annals...
...complimentary to say that a book is good if it can be read by anyone and do no harm, no better tribute could be paid this work. Certainly not all readers would acquire equal benefit from it; certainly the mellow vein of understanding, the whimsical, delicate irony will be lost on many. But there are no startling extremes to lead a reader away from the genuine excellence of the work as a whole...
...Republican chairmanship of the potent House Ways & Means Committee where all tax and tariff legislation originate. Though his position is outranked only by those of the Speaker, the Majority Floor Leader, the Chairman of the Rules Committee, he does not exercise an influence on the House equal to his high rank. In committee younger members like New Jersey's Bacharach supply the real driving force...
...student in the law school more than in any other branch of the University needs the advantages of that free and easy association and the exchange of ideas with his fellows, which only thrives where men live and eat together intimately and on comparatively equal terms. The situation is now manifestly unfair with the richer men living in luxurious apartments and those not quite so well off scattered in all sorts of lodging houses. Similarly with the eating question; those men with friends and sufficient means eat regularly at law clubs or together in certain restaurants, but the many...
Pitcher Burleigh Grimes of the Cardinals was well aware that his job had been made no easier by the way Manager Mack had accepted Street's dare. Other things being equal, Grimes would need a little luck to win. Luck came to him, but it was bad. In the second inning Foxx hit, low and long. In right field, Blades of St. Louis lunged for the hit as it bounced off the wall. He hurried his throw and dropped the ball. Foxx went on to third. Later, in the sixth, hard-hitting Third Baseman Dykes of the Athletics...