Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Garden last Tuesday, coach Barclay at the same time cautions against over-confidence in tonight's contest. On the basis of records against two common opponents, Tufts and M.I.T., Harvard should trim Northeastern by 38 points. Muzzling the Huskies, though, won't be as soft as this comparison would indicate, according to the Crimson's hoop mentor. "If we want to, we can win, but if we start thinking about Princeton, we may be in for a tough night...
Largest and most well-known organization of its kind in the country, the Mountaineering Club has been increasingly active since the end of the war, and future plans call for expeditions and training that will make previous jaunts pale by comparison, according to William L. Putnam '45, secretary of the Club's advisory council...
Behind reinforced concrete walls in the Dunbar Geophysical Laboratory. Professor Bridgman has duplicated pressures existing 200 miles below the earth's surface, forces, however, that are minute in comparison with those existing at the center of the earth. Under such conditions, solid rock becomes highly plastic and considerably more dense...
Said Corwin diffidently of his work: "I hope you'll excuse the pretentious comparison, but I think of the series like Pathfinder planes which precede a raid and light a target. My series may not score a hit, but it may light up an area that has not hitherto been explored. . . . Anyway, it's all there for history, if history is interested...
...experimental part of this work will not be completed immediately. Relationships between last month's findings and aptitude tests as well as a long range comparison with actual professions entered by men who took the test will be the subjects of study by Dyer's office...