Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What Sort Big Dornkey?" The sights and sounds of civilization brought murmurs of comparison. On Tristan, fish oil lights the lamps. The diet is fish and potatoes, augmented sometimes by albatross and penguin eggs. Now the six men looked into the kaleidoscope of a lighted city. They ate ice cream doused with brandy. They gazed at autos. Murmured balding, long-nosed Gordon Glass* at his first glimpse of one: "A most wunnerful movement." At his first sight of a horse: "What sort big dornkey is that...
...single week, he looked at plays of violence, Dartmouth College, the Marshall Plan, Herodotus, New Mexico (from dinosaurs to A-bombs), "Pretty Boy" Floyd, Eastern potentates, bestsellers, babysitting, Eva Perón, the War Assets Administration and Existentialism. Strunsky's skillful use of the telling fact, the apt comparison, the impeccable word made "Topics" a model of the vanishing essay form. Without blushing, his admirers, from Franklin P. Adams to Lin Yutang, compared Strunsky to Addison & Steele and Charles Lamb...
...Capra production, and its successful mixture of fantasy, allegory, and sentiment was a demonstration of brilliant skill and showmanship. "Magic Town," on the other hand, aims for sentiment and achieves mawkishness; it reaches out for allegory and it grasps chaos and incongruity. And, to round out the comparison, although it appears to have scarcely any intent of being a fantasy, and certainly has none of the elements characteristic of a good fantasy, it seldom seems to be anything else...
...comparative table showing what the Soviet and U.S. worker must give in working time in order to obtain the same quantities of food and other items [TIME, Dec. 29] was most interesting. Is it possible, to publish a similar comparison between the British and U.S. worker? ALEX I. G. FARQUHARSON Glasgow, Scotland...
...said Dewey defensively, "appropriations are not the best figures to use for proper comparison," since they include deficiency allowances and authorizations for money that will not be spent until next year. Estimated expenditures would be $753 million, he said, up only $46 million...