Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While Union chow lines have been decimated by this move, House men report a considerable increase in their waiting time. Comparison of meal counts for October 6 this year and last reveals an approximate increase of nine percent in the number of meals served in the House...
...effect that its modest goal would at least avoid the five year struggle for funds which preceded the building of Memorial Church. Out of that struggle, however, came a durable memorial which combines the functional and inspirational to the greatest possible degree. The current proposal does not stand comparison to the devotion which created Memorial Church in spite of discouragement and delay...
...nothing to bring his boys "up" for Columbia. They came up by themselves, and they will do the same thing for Yale and Army. In the meantime, they will be psychologically "down" for games like Dartmouth. Princeton, Brown, Holy Cross. And Cornell, How low they sink in comparison to Cornell's rise (it is fresh from a win over tough Navy) will decide the game. For the Crimson is able to win: if it doesn't, morale will be the cause...
...familiar difference, far less significant than the wholly unforeseen measure of understanding and agreement, greater than in any comparable Christian assemblage ever held. My own impression is that this was the most newsworthy fact about Amsterdam-such differences and stresses as appeared were inconsequential in comparison with what had been expected, and were overshadowed by the truly remarkable sweep of unity disclosed and even more by the fullness of mutual comprehension and appreciation...
...philosophy, especially its elements of unconditional pacifism, but few are likely to deny that The Plague is one of the few genuinely important works of art to come out of Europe since the war's end. It makes most recent American war novels seem tinny and thin by comparison...