Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seven scholastic groups at Harvard, Thurber declared, "a comparison of the standings throughout the four years reveals that the first four groups gain steadily at the expense of the other three categories." In their Freshman year many more men were on probation than on Group 1, but by their Senior year, the number was about evenly divided...
...limited nature of American powers," Buell argues that "this country can dominate the situation." He cites figures on U. S. wealth, industry, consumption, and the appealing figure that the U. S. "has 153 inanimate slaves (foot pounds of man energy per eight-hour day) per capita in comparison with 17 for the world average, 41 for Britain, 35 for France, and 27 for Germany. . . ." The U. S. has rapidly become the greatest "power" in the world, he says, and should shoulder responsibility equal to its power...
When 11,000 Harvard alumni convened in Cambridge at the Tercentenary celebration in 1936 it was the biggest alumni gathering in history, but was only a drop in the bucket in comparison with the University's 77,748 alumni...
...wide open: a four-night Bach Festival, first of its kind in the Northwest. Bach fans heard an orchestra concert, an organ recital, the Mass in B Minor, the St. John Passion, in the University's big Northrop Memorial Auditorium. If the singers were not yet ready for comparison with such seasoned Bachsters as the Bethlehem, Pa. Choir, they were nevertheless remarkably good...
...offender and his reaction to different kinds of treatment was explicitly indicated by the charts. As a practical test in the courts, Professor and Mrs. Glueck suggest that every second case appearing before a court be disposed of with the aid of the new prognostic tables, affording a comparison with the records made by offenders treated under present methods...