Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peaceable observer, war seems to have jumped ahead of the school of the soldier. The pace of battle has been stepped up immeasurably. Airplanes have succeeded trenches as the outstanding factor in modern warfare. The blitzkrieg of today makes the First World War look like a walkathon by comparison...
...Champ after a tooth and claw battle with Curley, the tapirnosed bald head. And all this goes on amidst rhumbas and tangoes by a red-hot Pan-American band! The more cultured group will be nauseated by rough and ready buffoonery which makes the Marx Brothers seem subtle by comparison. But if you like your humor simple and sincere, the Keithe Boston's dizzy program offers a bellyful of laughs...
...course everything points to the Yale game, and it should be breath-taker this year. The Bulldogs have a record much like that of the Crimson, and for comparison they tied Williams 1 to 1 and beat Springfield 1 to 0. So the outcome in today's game with Springfield will be an important criterion, and the westerners always go in for soccer in a big way. Anyway, as the old saying goes, "anything can happen in the Yale game...
...alarmed many Americans, because it appears to ally us with a warring country. But our nine billions for defense, our super-navy now in process of building, our conscription for one-year training, and our goal of 50,000 planes a year make Canada look rabidly isolationist by comparison. Actually, Canada has changed from a British outpost to a closely-tied satellite of America, and right now it is a weak flank. This presents the U. S. with a paradoxical problem. Canada, which over a year ago declared war on the dictators, is now, because of her weakness, a cause...
...Tigers have rolled over every opponent they have met so far scoring 24 goals to the enemy's four. Since they have played no team that the Crimson has taken on, a closer comparison is impossible...