Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...view of his recent history, it is easy to appreciate the new Lampoonthe "Games People Play Number." In comparison to the last few issues, it looks pretty good. Just as we were getting sick of the merino-joke re-runs, they have disappeared to make room for almost entirely new copy. Not only that, but in the "games" theme the Lampoon has found a big, bright, hard-to-miss bullseye. With a theme, and a fairly simple one, to focus on, the Poonies are on target more often than usual. Most of the six or seven games they have invented...
Joan B. Pinck '50, a study of contemporary reviews of certain works and comparison with retrospective critical judgements; Sylvia A. Earle, classifying marine plants from the Caribbean; Muriel Cohen, study of urban problems; Caroline Bloomfield; developing a junior high course in medieval history...
...Lamonts have served Harvard for generations. Yet even in comparison with the other members of his family, the contribution of Thomas S. Lamont can only be regarded as extraordinary...
Although clues provided by 0237-23 may some day fit into a pattern, they have so far only added to the confusion about quasars. Recent radio astronomy measurements indicate that some may be less than a light year (about six trillion miles) in diameter, mere specks in comparison with average galaxies, which contain billions of stars and are 100,000 light-years in diameter. And a new Caltech study suggests that quasars have an immensely bright core which is only a few "light days" in diameter. Yet if the quasars are as far out in space as their red shifts...
...pint-sized Norman Wisdom sang the razzmatazz title song from Walking Happy. It was Broadway at its belt-'em-out best, a show with pace, style, wit, suspense, and the kind of well-practiced polish that makes all the slapdash TV spectaculars look tawdry by comparison...