Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chile. Astute observers have called Chileans the Prussians of South America. The comparison is worth remembering. Here is a compact, militant, intensely nationalist people. Though considerably less in number than the residents of New York City, Chileans command official parity among the Great Powers. Thus the U.S. sends an ambassador to 4,000,000 alert Chileans but has never sent more than a minister to 400,000,000 spineless Chinese (see China...
Reverberations of discontent with the facilities in the press box at the Union have been heard throughout the Yard. Those who have to occupy this balcony perched high over the main floor have felt for a considerable time that the conditions would not bear comparison with those obtaining in the press boxes of the Yale Bowl or the Palmer Stadium. Anyone who has had occasion to use these facilities even once will agree that the ventilation and visibility is far below that in other similar structures...
...chance reason enough for palliation. Certainly the Union authorities should consider the welfare of the knights of the pen who daily make possible clear-cut analyses or accurate exposition of the events so vitally important to many of those unable to attend in person. The cost of alteration in comparison with the confidence that the Union does not lag in the move no matter how great will be moderatement toward better press boxes...
...Note: The CRIMSON wishes to make clear that it implied no slighting comparison of the Socialist platform to that of the two major parties in its editorial entitled, "Crying in the Wilderness". The sentence in regard to the clear cut principles of the Socialist platform and the baffling indistinction of the other, two was meant to establish this beyond a shadow of doubt...
...Professor Holmes supports Hoover as candidate with the most integrity"; when I read the above in this morning's CRIMSON, Professor Holmes' stock dropped pretty low in my estimation. However I was happy to find that his statement contained no such obnoxious comparison or weighing of the candidates' honesty. Certainly he has been much maligned by the writer of the caption...