Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...true Chicago tradition. More than that, it can get a sense of jazz as it is really played at late-of-night sessions in out of the way bistros and honky-tonks. This is great jazz--a reproduction so accurate as to make seem pale pink by comparison any of the series previously done by HRS, Victor; or Commodore Record Shop. As a matter of fact, Commodore ran and ad in which it said that this was the "greatest album in the history of jazz" and surpassed by far anything it or anyone else had been able...
These examinations, which are of the objective, short-answer variety, are designed to give Seniors a comprehensive measure of their knowledge in comparison with that of their classmates. The editors of the Yardling felt that it would also be of value to Freshmen...
...says Dr. Conti, the German birth rate was 14.8 per thousand; in 1939 it rose to 20.7. True-but even in 1923, worst year of the German depression, there were 21.2 babies born to every thousand Germans. Twenty Nazi babies per thousand is nothing to boast about in comparison with Poland's 25, Yugoslavia's 29, Rumania...
...pleasure of being designated as "the work of that up-and-coming young artist from the west." And, as is often the case, there was no particular reason for such neglect; the size of the piece was just small enough to that of Van Gogh to cause comment and comparison, while the few barns and houses which completed the landscape were sufficiently cubistic to inspire Cezannesque Colloquialisms on the part of any well-known critic. But for some vague reason the painting was gradually slipping into the lap of oblivion...
Outstanding in foil for the Percymen were Art Jaros and Sophomore Joe Koch, whose capers provided much of the entertainment in the one-sided meet. Bob Batt excelled in sabre. But these performances paled in comparison to the mighty thwacks and thrusts of Pastorious...