Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pulpit Bar. What the shrewd King and his crafty sage Cardinal Richelieu lived with has for years been tucked away in dark corners of French provincial manor houses. Tastemongers used to consider Louis XIII too ponderous by comparison to the more delicate, later Louisiana that most people are afraid to plump down on. But no longer, for a revival of Louis XIII antiques has tripled their prices in the past five years; they are now the freshest item on the French market. Scarce, perhaps, but a perfect Treize chair runs to $2,000, compared with the $5,500 that...
Behind the scenes of the big store, Macy's constantly tests and measures its markets, its merchandise and its competition. The arbiters of its prices are its 36 comparison shoppers. They roam competing stores, spying out new styles, feeling the materials and comparing prices. Whenever they find that Macy's is being undersold, they order the store to lower its prices. Not even Straus can countermand their instructions. Neither can he contradict Macy's own Bureau of Standards, the arbiter of the store's conscience. In a backstairs laboratory that looks like a bathroom choked with...
...sense, this made it all the plainer that no additional nuclear gimmicks were needed. But while the Paris delegates continued to discuss MLF and the British proposals for an Atlantic nuclear force (see Great Britain), still another little atomic plan was disclosed that made MLF seem positively brilliant by comparison. It was a West German army proposal to create a "nuclear mine belt" along the West German border fronting East Germany. The buried mines would presumably annihilate an invader without forcing him into a nuclear counterstrike be cause they would not explode on his own but only on West German...
...writes about composers and their works as familiarly as she would about people in her family, which of course they were. Scarlatti, she says, "is the only composer who reminds me of the playfulness of a cat, and he does not suffer from this comparison. We all have seen a kitten play with a twig. It is impossible to describe its grace, charm, vivacity and inventiveness." Couperin's work, she observed, has "an immutable and restricted frame. He moves in it with ease, as did the actresses and dancers of the past, even though they were tightly laced...
...comparison of this season's records of tonight's opponents also indicates a long night for Harvard. The Crimson, plodding along at 1-2 has beaten only pathetic Bowdoin...