Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...start fires. But the impression was that last week's German raids were chiefly to familiarize squadron leaders with the course and to test Britain's defenses. When unrestricted air bombing begins, with destruction raining down by hundreds of tons, last week's raids by comparison will seem like flea bites...
...proposals of recent years (often sponsored by the American Legion) that have sought to tax all war profits up to 95%. Mild, as war-profits taxes go, La Follette 's was nevertheless inequitable. Reason: corporations that have recently earned a high rate of return would be penalized in comparison with those that have been running at or near a deficit. For the latter (railroads, etc.) could ride the boom a long time (with a leverage quotient seductive to investors) before reaching the onerous tax brackets. The more efficient a corporation has been, the more its capital consists of brains...
...artistic merit which can be found periodically around Harvard without one's ever having to set foot within a museum. Holabird's cuts are hold but not obvious and strong without loss of sensitivity. The full page enclosure is a piece which would suffer but little by a comparison with George Grosz's water-color, "The Way of All Flesh" which deals with a similar theme. (Grosz's painting was exhibited in Dunster House several months...
...view of the possibility that the United States is once again on the verge of involvement in a European war, the CRIMSON reprints, herewith, excerpts from some of its early 1917 editorials. It is our belief that they afford an interesting comparison with undergraduate opinion of today...
Bradley leads the band by playing trombone, so on obvious comparison exists with Tommy Dorsey. for total returns, we'll take Bradley. His sweet solos are just as good as Tommy's and he can play hot, something T. D. admittedly can't do, plus the fact that he is a much pleasanter "front man" than Tommy...