Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What pleased McCurdy even more than his squad's second tiebreaker win in as many seasons was the progress the harriers have made in comparison with their performances last year at this stage of the season...
...Chilean refugee programs are struggling by comparison with programs for refugees from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, Parvey said. Those programs benefited from massive government involvement and publicity while the Chilean programs are "just being done from the heart" by a few Jewish and Christian congregations...
...alligators out of the bayous, used his stump-speaking abilities to become the hero of his state's poor people. So did Eugene Talmadge, an on-and-off Governor of Georgia for many years in the 1930s. His son, U.S. Senator Herman Talmadge, makes a then-and-now comparison: "In my father's day, you had big rallies at the county courthouse and, if you could afford it, you had barbecues. You shook every hand you could find, and it was all face to face. It's all changed now. You are talking to people sitting quietly in their living...
...comparison to Toland's second-floor beehive, the student manager's office in the basement of 60 Boylston street seems pretty deserted. Janet Mitchell, the managers' secretary, says she hasn't had much to do yet this year. But when the semester kicks off, every student who wants to play in any sport has to fill out an eligibility form--they must all be channelled through her--and then, she says, it can get really hectic. Football manager Fleischaker says he used to think most of the forms players have to fill out--relating to health, academic standing and general...
Alberta Arthurs, former dean of Radcliffe admissions who is now acting dean of freshman, says that Horner's low profile in comparison to Bunting has to do with a feeling that women at Harvard have won all the gains they're going to through militancy and a new tactic is now necessary...