Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your reviewer's statement presents an invidious comparison, it should be recalled that the circulation of a recent supplement to the New Republic exceeded by a quarter of a million anything attained in the early days, and a supplement published in 1940 exceeded the circulation of 1919 by more than three quarters of a million...
Boylston Reading Room will remain closed this term unless the need for it gets much larger. The use of Widener has fallen off as much as 40 per cent in the last months of college in comparison to two years ago, but this was 20 per cent under what was expected. The Library diagnosed the infrequent use of its facilities by the officers in the yard to their lack of time...
...Department's other quarterly figures clearly showed how distorted the first quarter comparison is : net after taxes in the March 1943 period was down 3% from the last quarter of 1942, and was up less than 1% over the third quarter when conversion to war work was still going...
Opium & Acrostics. Editing The Female Poets of America, Griswold was involved in circles so vindictive that modern gang wars seem gentle in comparison. One slighted poetess misused a key to his room, read his private papers each day, quizzed the wives of poets to get material for troublemaking among them. The one delightful and wise woman among the poetesses - Mrs. Frances Sargeant Osgood - was Griswold's friend. She wrote Griswold this acrostic...
...questionings by the police, grafting by smart young Japanese racketeers, and a growing knowledge of how systematically Japan was preparing for war with the U.S. Says Patric: the coprosperity sphere in Asia means much to the average Japanese. Huey Long's "Every man a king" seems picayune in comparison...