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Word: comparison (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stars, and the stellar structure, in the neighborhood of the sun. For this second problem, Dr. W. J. Luyten, of the Observatory staff, will leave. Cambridge within a month for a year's work with the telescope at Bloemfontein, where he will make plates of the southern sky for comparison with those made more than twenty years ago while the instrument was in South America...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shapley Describes Equipment of Laboratory in South Africa--Observatory Receives Several Small Telescopes | 6/16/1928 | See Source »

...never care about anyway. But after all, it is the very least that can be done, to attempt to arouse intellectual interest and to stimulate it along channels amenable to its particular characteristics. The ninety-and nine failures on the part of the adviser will measure up small in comparison with the one success the one student who comes there interested in nothing at all, and quite able and willing, his visions opened, and his horizons broadened. And as to the freshmen who enter with genuine interests, they certainly should be given all the advice and encouragement that is possible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Graduate Adviser | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...combatting the present movement toward complete freedom in study, his retrogression toward the grammar school is quite unacceptable. The virtue of final examination is at present a subject of persistent editorial inquiry by the Yale News, and its conclusions bear out the findings of President Holt. But in comparison with grubbing study in shakkles with an instructor who firmly guides the hand of the mind, and with a twilight release which connotes glad forgetfulness of the whirring wheels, the leisured freedom in first acquirement, and the resolution and at least partial digestion of facts that come with the comprehensive answering...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WORKADAY LEARNING | 6/7/1928 | See Source »

...standing in the Whig party as any other man - the Whig party being a composite party. Moreover, Tyler's efforts for peace in 1861 exclude the idea that he had any "embitterment" against the government on account of any party quarrel in 1841. Your article challenges a comparison. Both Tyler and Lincoln were confronted with war when they took office. In 1841 the menacing factor was Great Britain, supported by France and Mexico. Had war ensued, the Union would have been "encircled with a wall of fire." From this threatening situation the country emerged, by Tyler's skillful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tyler v. Lincoln | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...comparison of the daily average number of students using Widener Library during the past Reading Period with the number that used the library over the same period last year reveals an increase of approximately...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INCREASE SHOWN IN NUMBER OF MEN WHO USE WIDENER | 6/2/1928 | See Source »

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