Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshman team will meet the strong Yale eleven tomorrow afternoon at Soldiers Field. The two teams as they will go on the field are of about equal strength, the odds perhaps slightly in favor of the Blue yearlings. The only means of comparison that can be used are the relative scores against Princeton, Yale winning 21 to 0 while the Freshmen were held to a 19 to 6 victory...
...French laborer is as hard a worker as there is in any country, but although he works hard he has very little to show for it in comparison with laborers in America. The miner's job over there is an especially arduous one. I have seen miners work stretched out in a vein only eighteen inches thick for a great length of time, without even being able to sit up. For this he receives only a very modest wage. The conditions are better in the steel mills in the north of France, which are aiding in the reconstruction...
...University team will have a very slight advantage in weight this afternoon over the Tiger according to a comparison of the probable line-ups. The Crimson team has an average weight of 181 pounds against Princeton's 178. The two backfields, however, are of the identical weight but the University line outweighs the Tiger forwards three pounds per man. The backfields average 171 pounds and the lines 185 and 182 pounds respectively. From tackle to tackle the University eleven, with an average of 193 pounds, maintains the three pound advantage...
Griffes' "Clouds" invites comparison with Debussy's "Images" heard here last year. It seems to gain by the comparison; the "White Peacock" is also a beautiful bit of color work; the more one hears of Griffes the more one becomes convinced that he is the American composer--not that he is distinctively American, but that being an American, he achieves such beauties...
...outgoing Senior, it seems, has his full quota of troubles. Among the horrors and incremental difficulties of the last few weeks, which make Divisionals pale in comparison, there is one which he usually puts off until the very last moment--that of disposing of the odd assortment of tables, chairs, couches, and other equipment, necessary and unnecessary, which he has collected during his four years' stay...