Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Listed as the four criteria in the report are: number of undergraduates participating; the interest in the sport from the spectator's point of view; i.e., do attendance records compare favorably with those of the other major sports; the training and competitive periods in comparison with other major sports; and the positiin of the sport as a "major" in other colleges and universities of the country...
...theme, it is almost a first-class historical novel in the tradition of Tolstoy or Stendhal. With twice his imagination and half his unconscious Polish bias, Author Frischauer might have lived up to this tradition, instead of merely recalling it to his book's detriment. But by comparison with most recent historical romances, A Great Lord is a solidly written, serious work...
...comparison with the Government in office in France from the spring of 1936 to the spring of 1937, the present Government may be said to (1 have swung slightly to the Right, 2 be more radical, 3 be reactionary, 4 be pseudo-fascist, 5 be nearer that of Soviet Russia...
Some three years ago Harvard University received as a memorial gift a portrait bust of Descartes. But on comparison with the portrait in the Louvre, painted by Frans Hals, this attribution proved uncertain. It now is exhibited in the Fogg Museum for its intrinsic merit as sculpture...
...factors operate primarily to make publishing a difficult field of work to enter. First, the business is, by comparison with other businesses, a small one. Second, it requires rather extraordinarily talents which even few college men possess...