Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well-known fact that the Roman Catholic Church is one of the best organized groups in the world. In comparison the unity of the Protestant Churches is practically...
...Freshmen entering last June who have already reported, 32, or 14 percent, enrolled in English or literature combinations, while Economics claims 13.6 percent with 31 concentrators. Comparison with selections of the Class of 1946, peak war group, is striking. This class leaned heavily toward the Bio-chemical Sciences, 18.4 percent of a cross-section of 245 Freshmen electing that field...
Encouraging as are the sings of an emergence from the heavy stress on sciences, comparison with 1932, a peacetime year selected at random, shows that the revival in liberal arts education still has far to go if it is ever to return to prewar proportions. A bare 15.4 percent of the Class of 1932 chose to major in the natural sciences, while an overwhelming 43.4 percent of the present Freshmen will concentrate in sciences of some sort...
...years that have passed, he has worked at one endless job: to make himself a better professional soldier. By comparison with a MacArthur or a Patton, he is colorless. To reporters he has snapped: "I don't want any legends built up around me. I'm just doing what they're paying me for." The record of his tours of duty is as unglamorous as it is long; in World War I, though he got to France, he saw no action. In one thing he takes pride: he has commanded, in relentless progression, a squad, a platoon...
...responsible for the "melancholy exhibition" are two top Timesmen, both wild radicals by comparison with their staid predecessors. Bald, well-tailored Robert M'Gowan Barrington-Ward, 53, editor since 1941, is a deceptively mild-appearing man who gives "first place to second thoughts." The man who wrote the offending editorial on British policy in Greece, and ten like it since, has been on the Times only four months- but he is regarded as the most up & coming journalist in Fleet Street. He is able, amiable Donald Tyerman, 36, accountant's son who has been partly paralyzed since...