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Word: equalling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while "Plain Talk" is selling its extra editions and other periodicals are playing follow the lewder in the same field, Boston has lost sight of one essential fact. The mud that has been thrown at it could be hurled with equal and even more exactitude at the other metropolises of the East. It is absurd to say that Boston is the bawdiest of cities for it ranks only eighth in population. Unless "Plain Talk" can produce per capita statistics for indulgence in vice showing that five out of five in Boston deserve the scarlet letter, one should continue to believe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CASTING THE STONES | 1/9/1930 | See Source »

...transport operators boost air travel at this season, when traffic is desperately light and expensive planes must keep schedules? Universal Aviation Corp. last week sought to kill the trouble by offering $250 mileage books from which Universal's air conductors will tear fares exactly equal to railroad fare plus Pullman charges between any two points served. Thus: Kansas City to Chicago regular air rate is $45.75; the railroad-pullman rate, and hence the Universal mileage scrip rate, $21.03. Anyone can buy and use the books -doctor, lawyer, Indian chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Foolproof? | 1/6/1930 | See Source »

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