Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Most persons think of ballistics as a simple microscopic comparison of a few bullet irregularities with grooves in gun barrels. To Dr. Wadsworth this is "ridiculous." Any two scratches, he claims, can be "matched." He showed his colleagues a case full of slugs of a thousand different shapes, flattened, split, crumpled. Said he: "No two bullets fired from the same gun are ever exactly alike...
...York Herald Tribune, "Turns With a Bookworm," is appropriately signed I. M. P. Between columns Critic Paterson writes novels for much the same reason that the Irishman liked to be hit on the head-because they cause her so much anguish that mere personal calamities shrivel by comparison...
Hell immediately popped around Mr. Cudahy. The British and U. S. press, the American Legion in the U. S., resented his comparison of U. S. and Nazi soldiers. Britons steamed at his remarks about the Belgian surrender. But what mostly got up Washington's and London's ire was John Cudahy's implicit plea to Great Britain to weaken its blockade, to the U. S. to press the British to do so. Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles had Washington correspondents in for a press conference, tucked in his chin, lit into his old friend John Cudahy...
...roique, Daybreak, perhaps the last major product of a cinema industry that was as long on brains as it was short on budget, is a worthy swan song. It has the same distinguishing Gallic qualities of artistic shrewdness and spiritual disenchantment that make most Hollywood pictures by comparison seem, for better or for worse, not quite grownup...
...poll findings made a deeper impression in Washington than elsewhere in the U. S. New Dealers solaced themselves with the belief that Wendell Willkie had reached the crest of his wave, would now decline. The FORTUNE Survey itself pointed out-"A public whose preferences are as fluid as the comparison of these returns indicates may react against the Republican candidate after the first delighted surprise at his nomination has worn off. And Willkie's opportunities to make mistakes in the campaign all lie ahead, while Roosevelt has had seven years in which, perhaps, to have made all the political...