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Word: comparison (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...press made much fuss about his visit, compared it to that of Lord Renfrew, as if the comparison were equal. As he had never met Renfrew, it was suggested that he meet him for the first time on U. S. soil. He replied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Son MacDonald | 9/22/1924 | See Source »

...Comparison. The English style of play differs from the American in several ways. Primarily, the English seldom hits their shots with the spectacular punch of a Milburn or a Hitchcock. They rely on expert horsemanship, which the present invaders possess to a greater degree than any of the Americans save Webb. They play a clever, maneuvering, short-passing game. In combination play, an English Back usually stays near his goal continually. No. 3, the pivotal man, pairs either with him or with No. 2, leaving No. 1 to "ride off" the opposing defense or play a lone hand. An American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Preliminary | 9/1/1924 | See Source »

...comparison will be brought down to within a fraction of the time required for light to make a single vibration. This time is exceedingly minute. The unit of time used in the experiment will be about 2,000,000 times 900,000 times 256 times smaller than the second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Einstein Again | 8/11/1924 | See Source »

...John Webb and Inigo Jones, 1650, a Shakespeare first folio, the program of an amateur performance of the Merry Wives in which Dickens and Cruikshank took part, and delightful models of the old theatres which help to swell the interest in this section. The pictures merely serve for a comparison of English Art with itself. Particularly, a comparison of the immediate predecessors of our generation is illuminating, for men like Watts, Landseer and Edward Burne-Jones are here. It is only mildly entertaining to note the increased intensity of color in Canadian painting, more like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: At Wembley | 6/30/1924 | See Source »

...fully demonstrated. The Belin machine, however, differs from the Tel. & Tel. machine. The original record from which Belin transmits his pictures must be etched upon a brass cylinder. The Telephone Company's process sends from ordinary photographic films and produces a similar film at the receiving end. A comparison of the merits of the French and American methods is impossible, since neither has yet had extensive public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Photos by Radio | 6/30/1924 | See Source »

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