Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leverett, the third crew so far to launch their craft on the choppy waters of the Charles, is inexperienced in comparison to the Puritans and Deacons, but may threaten the leaders by the season...
...which to pick out a few schools that stress his particular field. A senior at California, for instance, might easily waste valuable time discovering that Harvard was no place to go for graduate training in Geography, or some other "weak" area. But from a booklet compilation containing a factual comparison of the scope of graduate programs offered by universities all over the country in a specific field, he could quickly narrow his search to two or three schools, if not choose outright. The information--not evaluation--could be gathered by such organizations as the Rockefeller Foundation or the American Association...
...preserve, no hopes to lose. Consequently they fought as desperate men. Their mission was akin to that of Communists everywhere: to uproot their countrymen, to spread despair, to kill hope, to smother enterprise, to prevent the sowing of crops, until even the tyranny of Communism would seem by comparison a haven...
Courteous & Clinical. Anthropologist Gorer has spent seven years in the U.S. with British wartime missions and on the staffs of the Rockefeller Foundation and the Yale Institute of Human Relations. In comparison with the old tobacco-spitting attacks of the great English travelers -Dickens, Trollope, Captain Basil Hall -The American People is refined and respectful. Yet its cool and clinical air reveals at times an underlying dislike which may be more destructive than the old quarrel between eagle-screaming Americans, whooping that they could lick the world, and haughty British remittance men sneering at them for spitting on the floors...
...than the Russians." Said Johnston of Socialist Wilson: "Were he in America, he would have made a great capitalist." Both parties to the deal stood to gain by it, and neither had anything to lose. In Hollywood, there were a few who called it a good deal only by comparison with the "confiscatory" 75% tax. Producer-Director Sam Wood spoke for the optimists: "Removal of the tax gives the green light on the greatest surge of production in Hollywood's history...