Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arabs, as Ben-Gurion noted, are 40 to one Israeli. But the Jewish superiority over the Arabs is not just a figment of Israeli imagination; it is a fact. Israel has probably the highest percentage of skilled labor and executive experience of any people in the world; by comparison, the Arabs are near the bottom of the scale...
This Life) will suffer no disgrace by comparison with Chekhov or Stendhal for a hurting sense of human relationships...
...Moth, Hollywood's hoary old sensation-monger James M. Cain tells the story of a nice boy-nice, that is, by comparison with other guys he has written about. Mr. Cain's new hero has a sense of beauty and even a sense of guilt. His missteps, including fraud, adultery, a few burglaries and one stickup, are practically forced upon him by the Great Depression. Thus Mr. Cain has it both-ways: his boy can be a college-educated, clean-cut young American and at the same time do the tough things in the tough situations that...
...Seniors Survey produced one very interesting comparison with the College Graduate Survey: the matter of income. The seniors say they anticipate making an average $4,500 a year five years from now (those headed for dentistry expect not less than $6,300), an average $6,000 ten years out of college. Those figures are, respectively, almost 50% and 100% too high as compared with the actual salaries reported by college graduates now five and ten years out of college...
...Brahms, waited until he was past 40 to write his first major symphony. He finally wrote it in 1939, at 47. The result is technically brilliant, bright and dry as enamel. Symphonies for Small Orchestra (Concert Hall Society Chamber Orchestra, Darius Milhaud conducting; Concert Hall Society, 4 sides). By comparison, these four little symphonies (Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 5) seem like, and are, youthful practice flights. Performances: excellent...