Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rheinstrom makes a very poor and illogical comparison when she says that Christians are not ordinarily spoken of as "young Catholics" or "young Methodists" or "young Presbyterians" in newspaper accounts. Judaism is much more than a religious denomination, and a Jew is a Jew not necessarily by virtue of his religious affiliation. A Jew may be an agnostic and yet he still passes for a Jew by virtue of his descent from the Jewish race. To say this is of course rank heresy, and now that we have made this statement we are quite prepared for the attacks which...
...complaint is, of course, relative. Alice Brady is so incomparably better as a comedienne than dozens of other actresses that her presence on the stage is a tonic. But she is so much better doing other things that the self comparison will not be downed...
What he said is just another complication of the coal-mining situation. The cause of the trouble is that production of bituminous coal is quite different from that of anthracite. There are far too many soft-coal mines and miners in comparison with the demand for coal. The result is tremendous competition, cutting of prices and a tendency to reduce wages. The soft-coal industry, unlike the hard-coal industry, is only partly Unionized. A year ago last spring at Jacksonville, the soft-coal operators in Union fields accepted a high wage contract, thinking perhaps that it would force high...
...That Andrew Jackson was a young blade very fond of fighting and swearing. Mr. Moore answered that he did so only in youth, and very little by comparison with other men of his time, that he fought only three duels...
...Although the receipts of the 50 selected post offices for the month of June, 1925, show an increase of 14.72% over June, 1924, and those of industrial cities, with 16.45%, show even a better average, it is fair to state that June, 1924, with which the comparison was made, was a very poor month, and showed a loss of 1.17% in receipts of June, 1923. In contemplating the increase, this fact must be taken into consideration, as well as the further fact that, in June, 1925, there was one more business day than in June...