Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comparison with the prelude at sea, the first act of the drama on Luzon was tame, but the second and third acts were to come. And the less action there was at the beginning, the more there would be in later scenes...
Radical Proposal. This also was a conservative document, by comparison with that of white-thatched, vigorous, 65-year-old Economist Sir William Beveridge, author of Britain's "cradle-to-grave" social-security plan. The white paper's policy, he wrote, "is not practical and it is not radical-does not go to the root of the matter. . . . Whether private ownership of means of production to be operated by others is a good economic device or not, it must be judged as a device. It is not an essential liberty in Britain, because it is not and never...
...best the harbor of Guam could shelter only about 100 ships. But in comparison to Pearl Harbor, it was nearly 4,000 miles closer to the war. From Australia this week a radio newscast reported that five-star Admiral Chester W. Nimitz would move his headquarters from Pearl Harbor to Guam shortly after the first of the year...
...emphasize Mr. Dewey's extreme good sportsmanship upon losing in comparison with the G.O.P. nominee of '40, who although a fine man in every respect, did not pull out of defeat with the cheerful acceptance of the inevitable as has Mr. Dewey...
Publisher Hillman and Editor Lyons bristle at the suggestion that their new 25? slick-paper, pocket-sized magazine is another Coronet, beam at comparison with Reader's Digest. Disinterested readers may find Pageant an agreeable blend...