Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: With the utmost repugnance I read the letter quoted by Major William G. Sears in your April 2 issue. . . . The comparison made by the Major between the situation under which the Chrysler tank drivers threatened to strike and the conditions under which tanks are driven by men in battle is not only malicious, but shows a disregard of the very rights and principles we are fighting for. To insinuate that workers should tolerate any condition where they work because our men are going through worse is nothing short of mean, and presupposes that total war is the normal state...
...comparison with Freshmen admitted in July 1943, the average age of Freshmen admitted in the name month of 1944 has risen from 17 years, four months to 17 years, five months. There has also been an upward trend in the number of men admitted from private schools as compared to public schools...
...shadow of Loew's State, the Christian Science Monitor building, and Mass. Avenue station, gives to Boston in small quantities what New Yorkers can find in a number of spots. So far it has limited itself to foreign films; through tomorrow, it is presenting what amounts to a telling comparison between a good foreign picture and a good American picture...
...comparison with "Lassie Come Home" is inevitable, since the two pictures are so similar. Though on a more thrilling and exciting scale than its predecessor, "National Velvet" occasionally suffers from poor directing, with the result that continuity tends to suffer somewhat, especially in the last reel. Otherwise it is a creditable and enjoyable production...
...many voices [have spoken] for special and by comparison trivial interests they seem to have stifled the voice of national interest and suffocated the bill. Enemies of the bill are beginning to boast today in the streets of Washington that they have killed...