Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...depiction of War, the novel bears comparison with its best predecessors. But it is in the hero's perhaps unethical quitting of the battle line to be with the woman whom he has gotten with child that it achieves its greatest significance. Love is more maligned in literature than any other emotion, by romantic distortion on the one hand, by carnal diminution on the other. But Author Hemingway knows it at its best to be a blend of desire, serenity, and wordless sympathy. His man and woman stand incoherently together against a shattered, dissolving world. They express their feelings...
...contract by the latter for some $750,000 worth of airplanes, floats, and spares. 7) That Great Lakes does indeed produce amphibions (note spelling) and cabin ships in "small numbers"-in fact, no numbers at all, although it has built an experimental amphibion. . . . 8) That, unless the basis for comparison be automobiles or some similar commodity, the present rate of production on the well-known Great Lakes Sport Trainer could hardly be classed as "small numbers," since it stands at four complete airplanes...
...winning plane was a supermarine Rolls-Royce. Fast was Flyer Waghorn, but not fastest of the day. Atcherley was officially credited with 332.49 m. p. h. in another supermarine Rolls-Royce. Later all contestants made ready to surpass that record by straightaway dashes. Herewith, for comparison, are speeds for one mile made in other ways : Doer Means...
...palaces they live in compared with the mountain homes from which they came. . . . You are dealing with a backward people who had to learn industry from the ground up. . . . Perhaps children do work, but in juvenile vagrancy North Carolina is so far ahead of Ohio there is no comparison. . . . The hours may be long and the pay small but [the textile industry] is a most highly competitive industry. There must be a profit in any industry or it will cease to exist. . . . Unionization is not the universal and complete panacea the American Federation of Labor would have you believe. Anyway...
...Comparison...