Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...preface to one of these 16 short plays William Saroyan compares himself to George Bernard Shaw. The comparison is not altogether presumptuous. He shares with Shaw a fearless, sassy gaiety, and like Shaw he holds naturalism, heavyminded-ness and the theater in general in contempt. Both, in Saroyan's words, believe that the theater "all theater-should be fun. . . ." Whatever else they are, these plays and prefaces...
...single year. Cried he: "If the agreement . . . represents a cross section of conduct on the part of the Defense Plant Corporation . . . we are tolerating the existence of an agency of the Government that is so corrupt as to make profiteering in the last war look like petty larceny by comparison...
...comparison with the loose fielding displayed against Wentworth last Monday the team's fielding showed some improvement with only three errors committed, none of which proved damaging. Responsible for these miscues were Tom Ayres, the left fielder, Johnny Kilpatrick, third baseman, and Bill Hamlen, the catcher, who was hooted goodnaturedly for his misplay since he was playing against his old school...
...ferocity of will and conviction equal to, if not greater than, the vaunted fanaticism of the Hun. So, for all these reasons, the fact of Russia is most prominent in the minds of Englishmen, and in their emotions, too. In a word, Soviet Russia is immensely popular. By comparison, their cousin country of America is scarcely noticed; at best, America is taken for granted; at worst, they think a good deal less highly of America than of themselves, which is not very highly...
...insect pest, for example, must first be compared and classified before it can be efficiently combated. Evolutionary changes, which only careful comparison can verify, have appeared in some species since the type specimen was first chosen, a century or two ago. And, though any curator can catch a Musca domestica (or housefly) in his own soup, he would probably give his right ear to have the original type. Among other items selected for bomb-sheltering from the Smithsonian collection (valued at $300,000,000 but irreplaceable, says one of its officers, at three times that figure...