Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three years ago, with an angry blast at California's then new 15% income tax law and a comparison of tax collectors to gangsters & gunmen, William Randolph Hearst changed his legal residence from California to New York. Lately, Mr. Hearst has been having his prodigiously scrambled possessions audited, consolidated, made liquid by a new set of exchequer chancellors (TIME, March 14, et ante). Last week, for reasons best known to his tax experts, William Randolph Hearst wrote a letter to Assessor W. M. Hollister of San Luis Obispo County, Calif. announcing that as of January 1 he had returned...
Though ranked among the Big Four, Old Gold was always a peewee in comparison. Whether the new member of the Big Four can do better, can overtake the 38-45,000,000,000 sales of each of the big three, the tobacco industry waits to see. With June sales totting up to the biggest total of any month in his company's history, President Chalkley went home last week to his one-acre place at Port Washington, Long Island, to enjoy a weekend's sailing in his 23-foot sloop, still trusting in partly the rum, partly...
...contrasting machines for war and peace, gears and shells, bombs and books, live workers and dead soldiers. Obviously inspired by Orozco, it differs from the Mexican's work in the technical exactitude with which Engineer Egleson painted factories and machinery, the sobriety of the human figures, wooden in comparison with Orozco's energetic and muscular people...
Sociology 6 offers an historical comparison of selected cultures (Primitive, Hindu, Greco-Roman, Mediaeval, and Modern European). Until now this course has occupied a full year and consisted of unrelated and digressive lectures by a number of men in the department, which was almost impossible for Parsons to connect. This year the course will be reduced to a half year and Parsons will give it all. It should be a good course...
...deal with intimate student problems nor with disciplinary relations between student and dean. Furthermore, he pointed out that its main purpose was to take undergraduate action, not to reflect mere undergraduate opinion. His conception of the Council's function was supported by its activities during that year. In comparison, President Keppel's Council, making fewer investigations yet contributing one that may prove the best of all in recent times--namely, the budgetary report, has nonetheless been marking time, while gathering up its skirts of policy...