Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...simplest comparison of the three materialists is made in Barzun's chapter, The Triumph of the Absolute...
...fair comparison with last year's crew at this time in the season can be made, as last year the Freshmen didn't row the mile and three-quarters. But looking back to 1938 and 1939, we find that the times were 8:58 and 9:00, while this year's best is 9:05, all of which means that the Class of '44 is only about a length and a half of two lengths slower than its predecessors...
...comparison of records would indicate a superior Harvard squad, undefeated in four informal meetings, over Dartmouth this season and outpointing Yale by six markers in last Saturday's Hep encounter. The Blue took the indoor contest between the two teams during the winter 56 to 35, but Dartmouth also beat the Crimson Indoors...
...importance of the comparison is that Manager Sloan is a democrat. He is a democrat not only because he is a human, just and generous man, but because he could not operate in any other way. He did not learn democracy in books. His democracy is implicit in his life. It is realistic, practical, unsentimental. His success with General Motors was that he literally made his management a democracy of brains, for he knows that democracy is the vital fluid of great corporate organizations, holding their personnel from top to bottom in a creative balance to each other. When...
...newly-elected Captain Chace was not to avenge the earlier defeat when the Yardlings went the mile and three-quarters last Saturday against M. I. T. The Techmen won handily, leaving Harvard second place. A lot of the gloom conjured up by the two losses was dispelled when comparison of the times revealed that Tech's Freshman wonder-crew had beaten the time of its own Varsity, and was "just plain good," as the Yardlings...