Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...transport center of Dortmund, already heavily damaged in previous raids. With such attacks the weight of bombs dropped on Germany was soaring to astronomical figures: after Dortmund, the R.A.F. figured that its Bomber Command had reached the 100,000-ton mark. German retaliation to the air war was, by comparison, infinitesimal-nuisance raids by day or night, averaging a dozen planes with bombs up to 500 pounds...
...they have not shown much, power in the midfield this year. The Blue has played only three games this season, losing their first to Army. They were swamped by an undefeated Stevens ten, 9-4. They beat Springfield 5 to 3 for their only win. By way of comparison, Tufts, with whom the Harvard team has spilt a pair of games, topped Springfield...
...Nichols album is astonishly good. A lot of people, including myself, have decried Nichols in comparison with his fellow-cornetist, Bix Beiderbecke, but in the company of such stars as Goodman, Teagarden, Krupa, etc., he plays above himself. There's still a lot of repression and self-consciousness, but there's also a good beat and a few good ideas. I wouldn't dare play Teschemacher's "China Boy" afterward, but the album is full of good, ripe jazz...
...comparison, how unimportant my life must be! ... I remembered the prayers offered by Dr. Sun Yat-sen during his imprisonment in London. . . .* My strength was redoubled and ... I was prepared to make the final sacrifice. ... I was comforted and at rest...
Since 1906 Russia became legally and tactually a constitutional monarchy; and after 1917 a Federative republic. Thus, even in the regime of the central government of Russia there was nothing specifically despotic or "oriental" in comparison with the regimes in Europe; main transformations of the political regimes were similar in Europe and Russia...