Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reaction was predictable, and some of it hurt. In Canada, Toronto's Globe and Mail asked: "What is the difference-leaving aside the bloodshed and brutality in Budapest-between what the Russians did in Hungary and what the U.S. has done in Lebanon? The comparison will outrage most Americans, but most of the world's population will draw it." Unfortunately, much of the world's population did. Other reactions...
...Internal Medicine, three University of Pennsylvania researchers report striking benefits among American Indians who got BCG as children. Of 3,000 youngsters in the study, half were vaccinated in the 1930s, while the others (from the same families and tribes, identical in all other ways) were left unvaccinated for comparison. Checked 20 years later, the unvaccinated were found to have had more than five times as many deaths from TB as the vaccinated-68 as against...
...investigators have alleged. Alcohol was not important in their own lives, but had been in many cases for their fathers, often to the point of breaking up the home. CJ The difference between the homosexuals' ratio of male-female hormone output and that of normal men used for comparison was negligible...
...interesting comparison presents itself between the Newton and the Cambridge School Committees. The Newton board is composed of specimens of the highest intelligence in the city; the Cambridge board--with a few notable exceptions is representative of the less intelligent portion of the city. Both these groups are quasi-cliques; but the Newton committee has the full support of the community while the Cambridge board generally manages to create a rift with each important move it makes: the educated, PTA-supporting citizens on one side; the less well educated, anti-PTA citizens on the other...
...worth of such attempts of communication with the public can be illustrated by a comparison of two neighboring school districts in, again, Westchester County, N.Y. (Westchester, fabled to possess in all its towns and cities the best of all possible school systems, actually runs the gamut from outstanding to abominable, and is thus a suitable area for illustration and internal comparison.) The Board of Education of Mamaroneck decided several years ago that it was time to build an addition to the high school, held meetings and forums, convinced the daily paper to carry stories on the building, and with...