Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Gerard Pieter Kuiper found that Wolf 424 has an unusual "very late M-type" spectrum which indicates that the star is 50,000 times less luminous than the sun. Its apparent magnitude is 11.8, which is about six magnitudes be low the limit of naked-eye visibility. Comparison of the apparent with the intrinsic brightness yielded the distance...
...territory. Although claim jumpers, land-grabbers, Indians, horse thieves, come into the story, and the hero is attracted by a neighbor's pretty daughter, Author Lane avoids unpleasant human situations as carefully as a dainty pioneer woman avoiding puddles. Blizzards, droughts and cyclones are the main events; in comparison with them, the struggles of the people, for all their physical vigor, seem pretty placid. The story suggests a landscape by Grant Wood-sweeping vistas of prairie country in which human figures appear as small and indistinguishable as gnats...
Confederate blood boils at TIME'S comparison of Fascist Franco with Confederate Robert E. Lee. This is the absurd apogee of its consistently biased, frequently inaccurate, reports of the Spanish war. TIME'S glib essay at historical analogy, is shallow, unsupported by historical fact...
...Evanston hospitals showed that of 300 drivers who had been in wrecks causing injury, 24% were intoxicated (at least one part alcohol to 1,000 parts blood). A survey by Northwestern University's Traffic Safety Institute showed that of 2,000 drivers examined, only 4.2% were intoxicated. Comparison of the two figures demonstrated the extent to which alcohol is a factor in traffic accidents...
...your comparison fair; or are there further facts in the Mahoney case which might explain the apparent inequity...