Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Comparisons between Princeton's newly enforced library hours and those of other colleges are bound to be odious-more odious even than is the usual wont of comparison. And Harvard may be expected to furnish a basis for a good part of these statistical presumptions. From eight in the morning until midnight are the doors of the Princeton library open for admittance; from morn to midnight may one finger leaves and copy notes; from midnight to morn may the goodies mop and scrub...
However, if the picture is exceptional this week, the stage attractions at the Metropolitan are more than distinctive in comparison with the ordinary run. "Flyin' High" is as successful a number based upon the flight of Captain Lindbergh as has been attained, which is not saying very much. The Greater Metropolitan Stage Orchestra under the direction of Gene Rodemich is the center of attraction with some grotesque looking imitation airplanes and a chorus of bespangled aviatrixes for atmosphere. Dances by a genial young person, Jerry by name, and "a couple of collegians from East Boston...
Heat Mines. An unassuming, bespectacled gentleman, John L. Hodgson, mining engineer, asked his hearers to realize how crude were the surface scrapings made by the earliest coal "miners" in comparison with the vast black honeycombs modern machinery digs-and then to realize how picayune were present-day coal mines compared to the shafts that might some day be driven, 30 miles into the earth's crust, to tap a store of heat 31 million times as great as all the heat stored in the world's aggregate coal deposits. A 30-mile bore, one foot in diameter, could...
...Nelson, most potent of post-War battleships which sailed complete, tested and primed last week, from the yards of her makers at New-castle-on-Tyne. Joyous sirens tooted all adown the Tyne, when the Nelson put to sea; and in British homes many a prideful comparison was made between the most powerful British, U. S., and Japanese battleships: The Nelson The Colorado The Mutsu (BRITAIN) (U.S.) (JAPAN...
...Rabbi Hertz may be called His Eminence, his position does not resemble a cardinal's. A cardinal is an officer of his church's hierarchy; Jews have no similar terraces of theocratic dignities. Rabbi Hertz's chieftainship laks the authority of the cardinalate. Perhaps the best comparison is to the position of John Gardner Murray as the Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church...