Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your Latin American department was off base in its comparison of the Portillo Hotel in Chile with our famous Sun Valley [TIME, Sept. 15]. You say the cost per person at Portillo Hotel is $9 a day with meals, while Idaho's Sun Valley Lodge costs $22 per day without meals, with an inference that this cost is the lowest rate. This is definitely not correct. The lowest rates at Sun Valley Lodge last winter for single occupancy in bachelors' quarters were $6.50 a day without bath. . . . The rates at the Portillo Hotel range upward from...
...Committee's agenda are a comparison of medical care elsewhere and a canvass of insurance companies for group coverage bids as well as the preliminary inquiry into the operation of the Hygiene Department. Letters will go out this week to health supervisors, student governments, and student newspapers at ten institutions with "conditions approximating Harvard...
...accounts of the recent tours of New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey and Ohio's Robert A. Taft. Our correspondents who accompanied them were Robert Elson, chief of Time Inc.'s Washington bureau, and Win Booth, who ordinarily covers the White House. By comparison with the usual grand tours of Presidential nominees after the Republican and Democratic conventions, these tours were in the nature of family excursions. Nevertheless, says Elson, who went along with the Taft party, "Booth and I got closer to the men, their families, and the politicians en route, than you ever...
...dramatically unsavory incident in the student housing crisis of 1947 does not amount to any sort of end to the crisis itself. While the administrative handling of the unexpected influx this Fall has been smooth for the most part, and conspicuously creditable in intercollegiate comparison, room exists to point out specific shortcomings. Furthermore, in the face of the problem's continuing complexity some high imagination for coping with its future appears immediately necessary...
Inez v. Andrei. A few minutes later, with 20 written questions still to go, Vishinsky tried to break off. But Hearstling Inez Robb spoke up. Said she: "Isn't the Russian press comparison of Truman to Hitler a sample of intemperate warmongering?" Vishinsky stalled a minute: ". . . I should know the expressions the Soviet press used." Then, firmly: "Anyone who incites a new war is worthy of being compared to Hitler...