Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More standards of comparison can be brought to the Moscow Art Theatre's production of Maxim Gorky's "The Lower Depths" than to any other production offered during their Boston engagement. Within the past three years the play has had two professional productions in New York. One of these was the Arthur Hopkins production in which Pauline Lord first attracted considerable attention by her rendition of Nastya. The other was that given by the Yiddish Art Theatre in their theatre in the Bowery, and last spring here in Boston. The American production offered many interesting features, and differed greatly from...
...commercially interested in its continuance, as she now is in the rum traffic. But in 1858, according to the calculation of Stephen A. Douglas, 15,000 slaves were brought into this country-a greater number than was ever imported while the traffic was legal. By this comparison the United States Government is not doing so poorly in its enforcement of prohibition...
...said, is that land is taxed according to its capitalized value instead of the income derived from the product, and this capitalized value instead of the income derived from the products, and this capitalized value is often unjust. Too frequently the land's worth is judged by a comparison with similar farms in the community, with the result that great injustices are committed unwittingly. This theory, he said, might be parallel to the English one of raising the selling price of estates because a social prestige is connected with them...
...Standish Hall, with a total of 27 points, while Smith was second with 25, and Gore third with 20. This is the second successive year that Standish has won the series, although last year the margin was slightly greater. It is, however, difficult to make any direct comparison, as this is the first year that a system of points has been used...
...probably a wise thing to choose at least one course on a period of History rather remote and different from the present age, for the sake of getting a standard of comparison with our own time...