Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unable to identify the specimens talked about, could return, and by individual observation of the labelled objects assimilate the instruction which they had received, to a degree that is now quite impossible. In short, this collection, fine as it is, is today of surprisingly little use for teaching, in--comparison with what could be made of if under different conditions...
Issues. All U. S. naval questions tend to revert to a comparison of U. S. naval power with that of Great Britain, whose far-flung navies are by no means melting away, and of Japan, whose late-acquired modernity is no better exemplified than in its mighty war fleet. The Washington Conference of 1921 set the proper ratio of capital ship tonnage for Great Britain, the U. S. and Japan at 5-5-3. The Geneva Conference of 1927 was called to determine whether this ratio could be applied to smaller ships. No results were obtained. Since...
Just as no man would ask special praise for not stealing a chicken, so no Congress man asked a moral accolade for support of the Fenn Bill. Nevertheless, there were, by comparison, some who deserved honor. Thus, honor went to the entire New York delegation for voting for the Fenn Bill even though New York will lose a seat. To the entire Pennsylvania delegation went exactly similar honor. But peculiar honor went to Connery of Massachusetts. He is his State's only Democratic Congressman from outside the City of Boston. Since his State has to lose one seat, he felt...
...Last week he went again, again played with the Philharmonic Orchestra, this time the Tschaikovsky concerto. But although now he plays on a full-sized fiddle and has a reputation which might well be the envy of many a full-sized fiddler, his perform ance last week suffered in comparison with the younger Yehudi's. As before, critics marked his amazing virtuosity, but many detected signs of a precocious vice: striving for effect...
...trial grew to resemble a literary symposium. The names of Shakespeare, George Jean Nathan, Aristotle, Gorky, Ibsen, Bernard Shaw and many another were spoken. Author Nichols' "dramaturgical expert," Moses L. Malevinsky of O'Brien, Malevinsky, & Driscoll, proceeded to a comparison of every entrance and exit in Abie's Irish Rose with every entrance and exit in the cinema...