Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reactionary from the outset, in comparison to "their radical neighbors in Cambridge," the Elis in 246 years have fought off such liberal trends as dismissal in 1722 of President Timothy Cutler for "Episcopism," the abolition just prior to the Revolution of corporal punishment ("cuffing" of an offender's ears by the President), and an early nineteenth century uprising against the present student government, known mysteriously as "the Conic Sections Rebellion," to emerge in the twentieth century as the richest corporation in Connecticut, over the second-place Skull and Bones...
...Haven team is favored despite the Crimson's slight edge in percentages because the caliber of Eli opposition has been far stronger than the foes faced by the Varsity, and a comparison of scores against mutual rivals gives the Blue a definite margin of superiority--or so it would seem on paper...
...modern science has lessened the importance of The Meter at Paris. Instead of using a meter bar for a check, a scientist in a well-equipped laboratory can now determine the accurate meter in terms of light waves, which give as accurate a measure of distance as direct comparison...
...Darling Clementine (20th Century-Fox) is horse opera for the carriage trade. Directed by John Ford, who made the smashingly successful Stagecoach eight years ago, the new picture invites comparison to that old near-classic. And Clementine does indeed closely resemble Stagecoach. Nonetheless it is a rattling good movie full of gusto, gunplay and romance...
...careful comparison of the course roster and the masthead of today's paper should show no coincidences...