Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Tel. & Tel." is the largest utility company in this country, if not in the world, in the total assets of $1,306,702,232. It challenges comparison with the New York Central among the railroads and of U. S. Steel among the industrials; if figures for its associated subsidiary companies are added in, it is a $2,000,000,000 concern and easily the largest in the world. Its stock is more widely distributed than that of any American corporation; since 1920 it has doubled the number of its shareholders, who on Dec. 31, 1923, numbered...
There is no comparison about the matter," he went on, "for the great majority of schools do not require their teachers to stress religion. All that is asked of them is that they treat religion with a general decency. But by this I do not mean that the public schools are in any way godless...
...years ago, Dr. Paul Withington declared: "It is as clean as any other sport we have, and if conducted properly, should develop the same good sportsmanship as football or track." And probably even the giant Firpo will now admit that its essence is skill and not brute strength. If comparison is made with other sports, boxing is certainly to be preferred to wrestling and is less dangerous than football. But its organization on an intercollegiate basis offers inherent difficulties as exemplified by the recent ruling of Yale authorities that unless cheering was conducted with more decorum no spectators would...
...statistical comparison between undergraduate and graduate students with which Dr. Lee was wont to assure his Freshman Hygiene classes that Harvard College was a healthy domicile, was convincing, but its effect was gained largely by making a course of study in the graduate schools appear a veritable lottery with death...
...easy to grasp the real magnitude of the meat producing industry in the United States, but a comparison may help to show how inconceivable it is. ... Suppose we have the 81,532,600 hogs slaughtered last year in a single drove. Allowing four feet as the length of a hog, in single file they would string out for 61,770 miles, or twice around the world at the equator with enough left over to reach from the North Pole to the southern end of South America. This same great drove would stand 21 abreast from New York to San Francisco...