Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...abandoning civic duties nor retirement from the life of struggle and responsibility which are the lot of every soldier. I know there are plenty of situations in the military, administrative, political, or civic field which I can occupy and which no matter how modest they may seem in comparison with the Presidency I now hold . . . could give me opportunity to discharge my duties as a man of the revolution...
Gentlemen of the Press. The second newspaper play to arrive in town this season was immediately subjected to a comparison with the first, The Front Page, which did not thereby lose its position as a headliner. The comparison, though, was interesting for it proved that truth, stranger than fiction, is not as exciting when placed upon the stage. Gentlemen of the Press lacks the hectic, unreal, melodramatic turbulence of the Hecht-MacArthur piece and insomuch it is a more true and a less compelling drama. Ward Morehouse of the dramatic page of the New York Sun wrote it; he should...
Citizens wondered what, if any, relation or comparison there might be between Mr. Ford's reasoning processes and the processes of John Jacob Raskob, retired finance chairman of General Motors, the biggest Ford competitor. Long before his new political activities caused him to withdraw from General Motors, Mr. Raskob was, as everyone knows, active in the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment...
...Significance. With the appearance of each volume of The Tale of Genji critics burst into frenzies of enthusiastic comparison: "Fielding's Tom Jones with music by Debussy" . . . "as if Proust had rewritten The Arabian Nights" . . . "Don Quixote with a dash of Jane Austen" . . . fortunately the ancient Japanese document is no such mongrel monstrosity as all of this. But the reviewers' floundering tributes indicate something of its variegated appeal. In limpid prose The Tale combines curiously modern social satire with great charm of narrative. Translator Waley has done service to literature in salvaging to the Occident this masterpiece...
...head is broad, shaped like a saddle, and weighs 400 Ibs. That itself indicates colossal body. But Dr. Andrews' first comparison-and there is little evidence that the cable garbled his words-was unbelievable. As quoted, he said that the beast was "about the size of the Woolworth Building if the building were in a horizontal position." The Woolworth Building is 792 ft. high...