Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian workers last week continued to rejoice over what they could buy with their new rubles, the New York Times's careful Will Lissner cut through the mishmash of economic terms, got down to a bedrock comparison. He drew up a comparative table showing what the Soviet and U.S. worker must give in working time in order to get the same quantities of food and other items. Samples...
...Henry James offered rich detail on a man who in the past three years has increasingly been regarded as America's greatest novelist. Franz Kafka was brought to life in Max Brod's biography and scalped in Paul Goodman's Franz Kafka: His Prayer. By comparison, Edmund Blunden's solid Shelley: A Life Story seemed a challenge to current taste...
...single unofficial grant of $100 and scattered graduate support are the only wherewithal by which the debaters pay their coach and expenses, Packard declared, and a half course in public speaking is all offered by the University in comparison with three full courses in writing...
...students and student organizations in one college know what is happening in other colleges, NSA, will be in a position to start achieving objectives. The educational opportunities of minority groups, to take one example, can be studied by means of information exchanges, perhaps improved through conclusions based on a comparison of differing problems and solutions. No material good will come on such problems as minority groups, or student employment, or cost of living in college, through occasional meetings of regional executive committees. Results will appear only when NSA has set up machinery for week-by-week, day-by-day contact...
...daydreams of grandeur--and upon it they have based a full-sized picture, complete with Goldwyn Girls. The original was simple, poignant, and pathetically amusing. The greatly expanded, glamorized, seat-song-studded cinema product is not; as indeed it could never be. But is this kind of comparison a fair one? Does the mere fact that a picture has lost just about all the spirit of the story that prompted it condemn the picture itself as a separate entity? James Thurber seems to think so, but then maybe he's prejudiced...