Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Commander Grady discussed the technique of the navy, showing the importance of the cruiser and the battleship and indicating their relative speeds in comparison with that of the submarine. He gave a brilliant description of the battle of Jutland and the flight of the Germans, drawing from the struggle an example of the necessity of preparedness. "In view of these conditions," Commander Grady stated in closing, "no one should view with apprehension the spending of money on the proposed program...
...Comparison of Style of Le Notre with Earlier and Later Formal Garden Styles." Professor Pray, Robinson Hall...
...real comparison can be made between the two teams, both appearing to be evenly matched. Both have defeated Trinity College by large scores, but a strong Holy Cross team, defeated by the University humbled the Green combination by a 30 to 14 score...
...number of carefully chosen undergraduates, to study under the guidance of tutors, with few lectures, and fewer examinations. But the curriculum, although there is much opportunity for individual reading, is definitely fixed for all. And in these required courses, the emphasis is not upon facts but upon criticism and comparison. The field of knowledge is regarded in its entirely. Whole civilizations, whole movements of thought, are studied, and the final comparison is always with the life of today. No art, no science is considered solely for itself, but in its relative aspect. While accumulating, if unconsciously, a body of facts...
...joining in welcoming to Cambridge so many students from other lands. I take it that some of you have but recently arrived in America, and it is a great pleasure to me to assist in your induction into membership in Harvard University. Our University is not old in comparison with some of the universities in other countries. It has not yet celebrated its three-hundredth anniversary. But it has earned a reputation which I suppose is one of the reasons for your presence here, and which I hope you will not find to be undeserved...