Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fletcher Ray. The film script, originally based on this book . . . deals with the life of Jesus, whereas that excellent book, The Robe, does not deal with the life of Jesus. What I said was that the little short films made by non-profit-making Cathedral Films, Inc. were, by comparison, so good that they beat all other religious films to date "into a cocked...
...rubles a month, and bishops rate as high as 25,000 to 40,000 rubles per month. With the official exchange rate of 12 rubles to a dollar, such salaries look pretty tempting even to prosperous Americans. . . . What these figures mean in Russia may be gauged by comparison with the average earnings of unskilled workers, which in one factory were given as 480 rubles per month; of skilled workers, 900 to 1,100 rubles per month; of engineers, 1,500 to 2,000 rubles per month...
...many people were turning a deaf ear to radio that it was causing talk. Last week Variety compared this year's final summer Hooperatings* with ratings ten years ago. The comparison...
Said Southern Pacific in newspaper ads: "The airlines compare their fares with railroad fares and come to the conclusion that air travel is cheaper. ... In comparing fares [they] always add in the cost of a Pullman lower berth. A comparison of a seat in a plane and a berth on the train is the same as comparing a chair with...
...good in Austria." So says the G.I. in Austria, and he means by comparison with the lot of U.S. soldiers stationed elsewhere in postwar Europe. Soldiers would grouse even if detailed to the Garden of Eden and last week, as usual, the G.I.s in Austria were grousing at having to attend a series of high-minded but boring Army lectures. But in their time off, the far from sad young men went on having a good time...