Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said to violate right to free speech because freedom of speech does not "constitute unbridled license for every possible use of language." Thus Miss Whitney, reputedly a Mayflower-descendant, must serve 1 to 14 years at San Quentin prison. Said she: "I have nothing to complain of in comparison to Sacco and Vanzetti...
...continually remembers the power of the author of "Aried" to breathe life into his characters and superbly to relived. In comparison with "Ariel," "Bernard Quesnay" is rather weak. It is a disappointment that this novel is not more significant and fails to become more than moderately good...
WITH the inevitable comparison to Pluck and Luck," "Of All Things" and "Love Conquers All" staring it in the face, Mr. Benchley's latest collection of scientific discussions, little home-talks and slightly drunken essays is perilously close to having to take a back seat. But close as the perils may seem, as the plucky reader wends his way through the distinctly mediocre to the unquestionably superb he emerges with the feeling that after all the Benchley tradition has been preserved. The chuckles come as they were no doubt intended to, and here and there may be heard a loud...
...million cars. . . . " 'The Ford plant lately has been working only three days a week and far from full capacity during the three days.' " "One General Motors unit alone, Chevrolet, is declared to have produced and sold this year some 25% more cars than Ford.... The comparison-contrast, rather-for January is figured out thus:* Production-U. S. and Canada FORD CHEVROLET Cars 47,794 57,704 Trucks...
...dramas of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, as belonging to the period of Ibsen, Zola, Hardy, and the other great questioners of the established order of things. The predominant note which Sudermann strikes in "Magda" is one of protest and incidentally of inevitable tragedy. The comparison with Ibsen's "Ghosts" and the other Ibsen's dramas of a like nature comes almost immediately to the mind. In essential feeling the two have much in common, but Sudermann introduces far less of the morbidly exotic,--plays less in the weird nooks and crannies of human misery and sorrow...