Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comparison of the chief points of the bill as passed by the House and as passed by the Senate...
...Claremont, Calif., hard by Los Angeles, another Oxford rises. Oxford, at least, is the handiest comparison, for Oxford is a group of autonomous colleges, individually staffed, housed and administered, under a university seal that indicates their federation into a community of learning in which only major facilities, basic policies and an enveloping tradition are held in common...
...abroad she conducts herself with innocent circumspection, going from Ritz to Ritz with her colored Lulu, picking up baubles here and there from gentlemen friends in a very nice way, eventually marrying a Philadelphia fortune. She covers much the same ground as "Cleone" did, and affords an entertaining comparison of the two ages of gallantry. The literature of illiteracy is enriched, the risibles of city-dwellers tickled by 217 pages of ingenious moronese like this account of her visit to "Dr. Froyd" in Vienna...
...this dream not comparable to the Vatican's ideal of the Kingdom of Christ? Down came the Cardinal's eyebrows into a deep frown, and ire flashed from the darkness. "How dare you make that comparison?" he thundered: "The idea of Christ as King is as old as the Christian world. Empires have passed and others will pass and be forgotten, but the Kingdom of Christ will live...
...Comparison of the estimates for riveting with the actual figures for the welding was overwhelmingly in favor of the new method. In labor costs it had saved 23%. Where riveting-gangs of four men would have been required, single operators had manipulated portable arc-welders, thus interfering less with other workmen. The time saved was over 20%. Strength tests showed the welded joints to be 100% strong, as against a 65% to 70% average for riveted joints?that is, the welds were as strong as the girders they joined, often stronger under test stresses. Rivets shear or rip out their...