Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though "Honky Tonk" is by no means one of the outstanding pictures of the year, it stands out so far above its present partner in crime as to be practically celestial by comparison. It is the kind of western that Hollywood has been turning out in great quantities of late; they take a couple of good box-office attractions like Clark Gable and Lana Turner and put them in what is really an old-fashioned Class B horse-opera, except that the script is Class a and there are a few big names in the production and direction...
...subject has been a sore one for several years, but no publicity has been given it since the spring of 1940 when the CRIMSON printed an editorial urging that a new system be adopted. It was generally felt that the swimming requirements were too strict and unfair in comparison to other winter sports in which many more men gained awards...
...teach the New York Yankees baseball. . . . They think nothing of sending hundreds of planes into the night air, no matter how bad flying conditions are. I've spent nights in London during some of the worst raids and I've spent some in Moscow. There is no comparison. The Nazis simply don't get through this wall of superfire put up by the Soviets...
...Your comparison of the Neutrality Act with the 18th Amendment (TIME, June 2) is a master stroke...
...Probably the most useful tool for research since the discovery of the microscope" was described in detail last week by Dr. Joseph G. Hamilton of the University of California. The tool he referred to is the use of radioactive elements, and his comparison was apt. Whereas the microscope makes visible aspects of living tissue which cannot be seen with the naked eye, the use of radioactive elements as tracers makes it possible to learn what becomes of elements taken into a living organism as food, to study the intricate mechanics of metabolism in living plants and animals...