Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...period pieces can hardly be called memorable. John P. Marquand '14 has collaborated with George S. Kaufman on a good and a very funny play, which, unfortunately, for itself, follows closely in the wake of the smash hit, "I Remember Mama,' and cannot help but suffer decidedly by comparison...
...pointed Soviet Star, was built by the State to the tune of $9,090,000. The proudest two theaters in Russia, Moscow's Bolshoi and Leningrad's Kirov, were slightly damaged in the war and the State took this excuse to give them such renovation that, by comparison, New York's Metropolitan Opera House looks like an elderly duchess decked out in moth-eaten flannel underwear...
Scheinfeld observes that no overall comparison of male & female intelligence can be made. Women average higher in languages, esthetic skills (such as matching colors) and social accomplishments. But men show up better in tests for reasoning, ingenuity, comprehension, abstract thinking, mathematics, science. Scheinfeld thinks that male domination is not entirely responsible for the fact that no woman has ever produced a great invention, composed a great piece of music, or ranked with the great artists and writers. Says he: Women must always be handicapped in competition with men by the physical facts of life (childbearing, menstruation, etc.) and the necessity...
Most probable mediums (now light bombers by comparison): ¶ North American's B-25 Mitchell-apparently a nose ahead of Martin's B-26 Marauder...
...deposits total at least 25 million tons. Engineers estimate unproved reserves up to ten times this figure. Expected annual production by 1946: 2,000,000 tons. This is small change compared to the 65,000,000 tons produced last year by Minnesota's famed Mesabi range, but the comparison does not show the real importance of Steep Rock to the Canadian and U.S. steel industries...