Word: comparison
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Observe also, for the same reason, that he is not contrasting good acts with evil ones. It is not the comparison of the sheep and the goats; of the good man whose works will follow him, and the bad man who will be weighed down by them. He is discriminating among different works all well intentioned; among those which he compares to gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay and stubble, although all done from moral motives; in other words between good works of high, of moderate or of trifling value, and he rates them according to their enduring quality when...
There will probably be another time-trial for the University crew tomorrow, which should furnish a more authoritative basis for comparison with Yale than has been available to date...
...circular 242 of the Harvard College Observatory Professor S. I. Bailey G. '88, Philips Professor of Astronomy, discusses "The Comparison of a Milky Way Field with one at the South Galactic Pole", and gives some "Notes on the Structure of the Milky Way". The photographs upon which the article is based were made at the College Observatory, Arequipa, Peru, with a 24-inch Bruce photographic telescope...
...comparison of Business Cycles in the United States, Great Britain and Canada...
...that is--up to the present. But a solitary figure,--concerning whom much red ink has already been spilt,--has appeared to carry out Dante's dream. Perhaps it is a further waste of ink to say more of this Benito Mussolini. But he is a figure who challenges comparison; one who has not proved a short-lived upstart, nor yet an overbearing Napoleon, seeking to conquer Europe; but one whose rule has been characterized by sanity and vigor. Recently he has given additional proof of his many-sided genius, by active interest in a movement to improve the moral...