Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hesitate calling the electron microscope as it is a magnificent instrument. In view of future developments, however, it has to be admitted at the same time, that with respect to its lenses in their present state, no more favorable comparison can be made than with the microscope as it was at the time of Leeuwenhoek...
...size of the Army's job can be scaled by comparison with the Navy's smaller job at Guadalcanal. Marine screams could be heard from the Solomons to Washington because no mail came during the first two beleaguered months on Guadalcanal. More recently letters and packages have been arriving and the island has its post office...
...face of one of Washington's more general disorders, the Deans' Office went to work. Out of chaos they brought a plan, fallible to be sure, but by comparison almost rock-like. It became their outspoken policy to advise men to stay at Harvard and complete as much of the four years as they were able, and their official rulings have been uniformly consistent with this policy...
...recent stage production, "The Eternal Road", he made use of another gigantic cathedral, which made that of "The Miracle" seem like a chapel by comparison...
...reference to the article on Chile in TIME, Nov. 2, there is an error in the comparison of infant-mortality rates in Chile and the U.S. TIME states "In 1939 Chile had the highest infant mortality rate in the world (250 per 1,000 live births), a death rate twice that of the U.S." The U.S. infant mortality rate for 1939 was 48 (48 infants died under one year of age for every 1,000 live births). The infant mortality rate reported for Chile in 1939 was 225-almost five times as high as the rate...