Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...currency, in severing all ties with the past! Already Belgium, Austria, Hungary and Russia have struck new coins† .... The best reason for reviving the ecu is that it would stop our people from thinking in terms of francs and would abolish forever the present distressing comparison of salaries and prices with those of pre-War days. . . . The franc, even at par (19.3?) was a ridiculously small unit which never served any purpose except to complicate bills and infest columns with fractions. ... As for that mathematical microbe the centime ($.0004) it would have been discarded long ago if only someone...
...comparison of this plan with the system of student advisers still operative here will no doubt suggest itself. But the consideration that it is the younger man, to fill an actual need, who will seek the advice of his willing elder, is enough to destroy a superficial similarity. Moreover, the association of the two is unhampered by any attempt at regulation by college authorities. Supplied with all the necessary information about his disciple, the graduate, by letter or conference, can advise him as he sees fit, and with perfect frankness and freedom. And the fact that no compulsion is placed...
...obliterated of the funeral oration on Boston delivered in the pages of last year's American Mercury, and with the Nation's fervent and constant gibes in the direction of the metropolis of the Commonwealth, what journalists name the "Bub" is apparently in a bad, bad way. The comparison most often cited is that of decadent Rome--the parallel being in the fact that both cities lost their majesties, the one through luxury, the other through misplaced Puritanism...
...twenty-year period seemed long enough to afford a fair comparison of the more recent dual athletic successes of the two universities, but as a matter of record the total losses and victories for all time in the several major sports have also been given...
Although there has been no trace of the Indians found anywhere else, and there are no indications of their later habitation, a comparison between the houses built by them and those of the Pueblos living in the northern part of the state at the present time shows a close similarity...