Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amazing that anyone in the U. S. could degrade his intelligence by insinuating that there is any comparison between gangsterism in this country and Hitlerism in Germany...
...surplus males. Yes, the American deb is obviously out to please, unlike the English deb. . . . Precisely the same plump little figures you see in Mayfair, their hair is neither as well cared for nor as well dressed, their complexions are often poor and their clothes also are dowdy by comparison...
...have seen free countries deteriorate into dictatorships ruled by the heavy hand of voodoo high priests. ... To seek a true comparison it is necessary to go back into that period of history when man was unlettered, benighted and bestial...
...serve democracy by education. Right here it fails to attract the attention the first one obtained. The first appeal was a concrete expression of abhorrence of a present evil; the second is based only on a quite vague and idealistic scheme of preparing for the future. This unfavorable comparison makes Harvard's latest plan for Scholarships lie unfortunately close to a noble absurdity...
...University. Obstacles in the way of the projected cooperative often seemed insuperable. There was the food to be contracted for, the cooks to be hired, the legal status to be established, the money for furnishings to be raised, and above all, the housing to be provided. In comparison to the housing all other problems were easy; the scarcity of available halls--and the rents charged for them--were appalling. Then, after weeks of search, when a satisfactory location had finally been found and the lease was about to be signed, the Cambridge Savings Bank, for no apparent reason, suddenly backed...