Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...voted Socialist last year. They voted for a bearable life, and for the prospect of a good life. They have not got either and will not get anything better for a long time. Instead, they are adjusting themselves to a grey world of poverty-and to genteel inferiority in comparison with the powerful, prosperous...
...comparison was obvious and presumably intended. Just as Bunyan's "Christian" wound up in the City of God, so Hogarth's "Tom Rakewell" awoke from the happy madness of Drury Lane's Rose Tavern to the chains of the miserably insane in Bedlam. The year he died (1763), Hogarth added a final bitter detail to this engraving: a ha'penny stuck against the wall to indicate that Britannia was also an inmate...
Although almost light-hearted by comparison with Andreyev's other works, "He Who Gets Slapped" is a sombre and moody play; as is often true of tragedy, it is reflective and can easily be condemned for dragging by a theatre goer searching after bright lights and gaiety...
...Ophiuchi, had a very significant wobble. After watching it for years, he had decided that it must be the dominant member of a couple. Apparently, it was revolving once in eight and a half years around a dimmer star. He did not see the "dark companion" -"dark" only by comparison with the glare of Alpha Ophiuchi...
...detection research, is as curious as it is practical. A five-pound bomb, tossed into the water by the survivor, explodes under hydrostatic pressure 3,000 to 4,000 feet under sea. Sound waves, carried by the water, are picked up by three or more shore stations. By careful comparison of the arrival times of the signals, the stations can chart the position of the explosion, through triangulation...