Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contraptions of the cinema palaces can imitate anything from a peanut whistle to the crack of doom. No other instrument has such elaborate controls; organ playing, involving several manuals (keyboards), sundry pedals and sometimes hundreds of stops, makes 20-mule-team driving an utter cinch in comparison. An organist's opportunities for musical sins of commission are almost limitless...
...custom was not only an injustice to an excellent pilot (squirms Gentile: "It's not good enough . . . I'll never be satisfied until I get four more in the air and make it 27 destroyed upstairs"). The Eighth's action also served to point up by comparison the sounder trend, which is away from individual box scores toward fighter teamwork...
...Democratic Senator, frequently sharp in his criticism of the Administration's war production, nonetheless put himself on record for Term IV. Said Missouri's able Harry S. Truman (sometimes mentioned for the Vice Presidency) : "The faults [in the Administration's war planning] are insignificant in comparison with the great achievements that have resulted. I think the country realizes that we have wise and experienced leadership. And I am further convinced that this leadership will be continued until the job at hand is completed...
...Burma, when he could get almost no help from the U.S. Besides questions of public policy there were personal differences between T. V. and his two potent sisters, Mme. H. H. Kung and Mme. Chiang Kaishek: Mme. Kung in general represents conservative party politics and T. V. by comparison, the aggressive liberal forces. Mme. Chiang sided with the Kungs...
...figure was 172,822 out of nearly 50,000,000 women: about one woman in every 300. By comparison with this "not-bad" figure...