Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bolshevists are justly very proud of what they have accomplished in Russia during the past decade. Their pride of accomplishment has naturally been greatly increased by the prodigious achievements of their armies in comparison with the inability of the capitalist nations to open a second front on the continent of Europe...
...cinema role in an undisclosed movie was Marlene Dietrich's 18-year-old daughter Maria Sieber, whom a photographer caught with mother for the sake of comparison...
...divided by 1,000 publications equals $27,189.37 in any schoolboy's arithmetic. This figure includes administrative costs. The cost per word of the State Guides was admittedly high by comparison with other types of books-particularly because of the staggering research job involved...
...raid, small in comparison with day & night attacks on England in 1940 and 1941, was by way of retaliation for the two poundings the R.A.F. had given Berlin. About 125 fighter-bombers and fighters, mostly Focke-Wulf 1905 and Messerschmitt 190Fs, crossed the coast at Beachy Head and roared at mast level up the Thames Estuary. The R.A.F. shot down 16, of which five fell before the cannon and machine guns of the Hawker Typhoon, one of Britain's newest and fastest (over 400 m.p.h.) fighters. Only six German planes penetrated the outer defenses of the capital...
...worthy though they may prove, they inevitably pale by comparison with what Joseph Stalin...