Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time has come to put an end to your editorial policy of be-"little"-ing Tsar Boris of the Bulgarians (TIME, Feb. 7). His country may be "little" in comparison to yours, but he rules six times as many subjects as you have subscribers. . . . He himself may be "little" compared with the giant of Sweden, or the barrel-like Göring, but so is the average man, on or off the throne. He has been called "fairly tall" by those who know...
...annual meeting of Gypsum stockholders, Chairman Sewell L. Avery took occasion to crack back at Franklin Roosevelt. Reading TIME'S account of the President's lecture aloud to some 50 Gypsum stockholders assembled in Chicago, Chairman Avery declared that Franklin Roosevelt had been misleading in his comparison of 1938 with 1929. In 1929, said Mr. Avery, plaster prices were drastically low because of a savage price war. Today Gypsum's average prices are 9% under the 1926 level which Franklin Roosevelt has often called his commodity price goal...
...present trials for treason which are filling the newspapers stirred him to recall some of the figures whom he had known. Bukharin he described as a fanatic, but honest in his ideas in comparison with Yagoda. Furthermore he remembers Bukharin from the time when the latter was one of the Bolshevik leaders and he was the leader of the Popular party, as a cultured man, something which could not be said for Yagoda...
...comparison with his former wife's volume, 50-year-old Baron von Blixen-Finecke's African Hunter is little more than a handbook for big-game hunters. A professional guide to millionaire sportsmen, he enumerates his choice kills, gives bag limits, cost ($2,000 per month per person), devotes his longest section to a hunting trip with the Prince of Wales-"perhaps the toughest sportsman of them all." Except for an occasional game beater. Baron Blixen-Finecke does not care much for natives. Now married to an adventurous, pretty, 29-year-old Englishwoman, he remembers his first wife...
Pointed out were the number of undergraduates participating in the sport, the interest shown by spectators, training and competitive periods in comparison with other major sports, and status of swimming as a "major" in other colleges...