Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jazzists make a great point of their rhythmic innovations and the freedom of their rhythms. If they had any idea of what rhythm meant, they would know that in comparison with the rhythms of any of the great composers from the 16th Century onwards their own rhythms are merely as the sing-song of a nursery rhyme to the changing subtleties of a page of Shakespeare...
...Most motor car makers last week displayed with great confidence their 1927 models for the past week. Others will follow in quick succession, until the winter automobile shows bring them together for comparison. Retail sales have already picked up. In the first six months of the year, automotive sales-cars, trucks-aggregated the amazing total...
...income by writing on popular medical subjects for the newspapers and so was an ideal sponsor for the ingenious new plan. Dr. MacDonald, who had already measured scores of Representatives and Senators in the 62nd Congress, explained that he would like to examine legislators of other countries too, for comparison, "but our country is first and should continue to lead in this comparative anthropology of legislative man. . . . The acts of Congress as a whole are not accidental but work according to laws yet unknown...
Unveiled is used advisedly. Five years ago this entertainment would have been called cruelly iniquitous. Intimate visions of anatomy and ribaldry of wit are often apparent. Yet the display is a study in hygiene in comparison to a variety of Broadway shows. Mr. White had so much entertainment that he could apply temptation as a background. Other producers prefer to focus on it, and play it as their highest card...
There is then no flattering comparison, or no insulting deduction. But the rules of the totem, its taboos and its legends, are fairly well-known to us now, in the examples that have been found among primitive or barbaric races. What we fall to do is to realize that the experiences of these people are in a very real way similar to our own. Loyalty to a tribe of Samoan Indians exacts much the same sacrifice from the individual and returns to him much the same reward, only in different terms and units, as loyalty to an American college...