Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bill the Farm bloc also served another of its interests. Part of that $680-million bill is a request for $222.8 million for Farm Security Administration, the farsighted, big-hearted New Deal agency that keeps small farmers and marginal farmers on their feet-the farmers who by comparison get the skim milk after the top-drawer farmers have taken the cream. FSA can help 500,000-odd small-time farmers produce much-needed foodstuffs. But the Farm Bureau and their Congressmen hate FSA with a real and poisonous hatred; FSA helps impoverished Negroes and whites to own their...
...pleasantest days of soliciting in the history of that arduous activity was made the more enjoyable yesterday by a continual exhibition of shapely and not-so-shapely feminine limbs which made any session at the Revere Beach funhouse look dull by comparison...
...play the game, they must regard handball not only as one of the best conditioners but definitely a stimulus of the competitive instinct upon which the generalship of the military strategist depends. Those who have seen Unlucky Joe Platak defend his title will appreciate TIME'S apt comparison to Joe Louis. Both are veritible tigers of energy and courage. Perhaps TIME'S article will get Unlucky Joe out of the Great Lakes scullery and place him in a service commensurate with his exceptional talents...
Crates & DDs. Constructing cargo vessels (like the Liberty ship) is not comparable with naval shipbuilding. The Liberty is by comparison little more than a long steel crate pinched together at the ends...
This young man's feat paled by comparison with the elderly General's recent escape as it was recounted last week. This time the story sounded, and may have been, too good to be true...