Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...barometer, the stock market has proved none too accurate, notably in the last two years. Back in 1937, the market fall was far worse than the drop in production; since 1942, the market has been much lower-in comparison with the gross national product-than it was even in the dark days of 1932 (see chart). The Dow-Jones industrials, now earning even more ($20 a share) than they did in 1929, are selling for only half as much...
Rather than postponing the inevitable comparison, it can be said right now that the new Dickens movie, "Nicholas Nickleby," is not nearly so good as its exciting predecessor, "Great Expectations." That is not to say that it isn't worth going to see; it will be rewarding to Dickens devotees and to those who are willing to sit through ninety minutes of almost incessant gloom and confusion, through which only glimpses of the fine acting and the story can be dimly seen...
...script which insists on sentimentally ennobling one of fiction's most vehemently average women. Irish-born Kieron Moore, Britain's newest cinematinee idol, is badly miscast as the debonair Vronsky; he appears to be an idol with feet of peat. The principals suffer further by comparison with Sir Ralph Richardson, whose Karenin fairly lumps out the screen with its three-dimensional reality...
This example, based on a salary of $2,699 in Class Eight is very misleading, as the largest group comes under Class Six. If I took the time to make a comparison between the new retirement plan and Social Security. Therefore, I fail to see anything in the law to prohibit Harvard University from giving its employees something as good as Social Security. George A. Porter
...Certain provocative postures accentuate still more the indecency . . . especially ... a certain posture (pardon the comparison!) which brings to mind a posture that dogs often use. These ladies seem to think it impossible to skate gracefully without lifting a leg as high as possible . . . and facing the audience...