Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smathers . . . complains of his early rising . . . the long hours and the uncertainty of his position. He emphasizes the dangers of his job and his lack of security, and then attempts to draw a comparison between his lot and that of the men in the armed services. However, there are a few things our misguided hero on the home front has overlooked...
Trouble at Fondouk. The Fondouk action afforded a sharp comparison between British and U.S. troops. The British were assigned to clear the heights to the left of the pass leading to Fondouk, the U.S. troops the heights to the right. These were important preliminaries to getting through to the coastal plain where Kairouan and perhaps some of Rommel's retreating strength could be assaulted. When the British troops reached their first objective at 7:30 the first morning, the U.S. troops had not begun to move. All day the British worked their way efficiently along their ridges...
Tall Bishop Berggrav has grown even taller in the estimation of his enslaved countrymen since his arrest last year. To them he has become one of Norway's brightest symbols of freedom. Norwegians feel there is no comparison with Niemöller. The German, pastor, they insist, was sent to a concentration camp only because he did not like the Nazis barging into church affairs. Berggrav, on the other hand, took his stand not merely on spiritual grounds, but also because he detested their political theories and said...
...comparison with Russian single-mindedness, the Chinese press has an almost democratic diversity and vivacity. No newspapers have been suppressed outright except the "mosquito" tabloids which before the war achieved a lewdness beyond description. Competing for readers in Chungking are 13 dailies, including the Communist paper, the "liberal" Ta Rung Pao, the Roman Catholic Social Welfare Daily (Yih Shih Pao), the racy evening tabloid, New People's Daily (Hsin Min Pao), and the official Kuomintang and Army sheet, Central Daily News (Chung Yang Jih Pao), which has a partly free circulation of 150,000-perhaps more than...
...Ninety-five percent of all the food consumed ... is rationed," and "even Government officials cannot control themselves at the sight of food." Concluded some observers: "The annual civilian consumption in Russia is less than the annual civilian waste in the United States," and "by comparison, even Germany - as late as 1939 -was a land of luxury." Correspondent Graebner believes that such self-sacrifice, added to the staggering losses at the front, is borne less because the dictatorship decrees that it must be than because of patriotism and popular faith in the national leadership. To those with whom he spoke, Socialism...