Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Halfback Davis has far too much leg drive to suffer comparison with such outstanding scat-backs as Yale's Albie Booth. Nor is he comparable to snake-hipped Red Grange. Junior carries a special kind of speed that is all his own. After a brief show of hippiness, enough to get around the end, he simply leans forward and sprouts wings. Once outside, he makes would-be tacklers look ridiculous as they try to cope with his speed, his willowy change of pace and starchy stiff arm. He has gained a grand total of 1,777 yards...
This number, which represents more than a three-fold increase over the spring term attendance, remains considerably below the normal peace time figure of 1200 to 1300 students, comparison with past records reveals...
Utah, during Celery Week, Nov. 11 to 17, will ship 500 carloads of Utah celery and a score of thousands of gift boxes to at least 45 of the 48 states of the union, of which one will be to the editor of TIME for comparison with Wisconsin's synthetic product...
...Kelly's dancing-the first in movies to stand comparison with Astaire...
Hollywood's Major Joppolo is a likable young man named John Hodiak whose earnest performance suffers mainly from its inevitable comparison with the expert underplaying of Actor March. The girl Tina (Gene Tierney), whose role is no clearer nor any more necessary in the picture than it is in the play, is a remarkably clean-looking girl who has apparently cornered all of war-ravaged Italy's remaining soap, and who tries to give an illusion of foreignness by talking very slowly...