Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the questions asked to discover which drinks give the most aid for digestion and which have the greatest superiority over fatigue were: How is tea rated in comparison with milk, coffee and beer? What kinds of drinks were served during games and practice of the team...
...hocus-pocus was that a minor Elizabethan historian of doubtful veracity once wrote that when Spenser was buried, a cluster of poets, including Shakespeare, placed poems in their own handwriting in his grave. For 20 years the Baconian Society has been pleading to have the grave examined, arguing that comparison of the handwriting of the poems would prove once & for all that it was Bacon who wrote Shakespeare...
...record of the Crimson runners against Eli Captain Ronnie Clark last Friday offers a possible basis for comparison, for earlier this season, in Yale's triangular meet with Columbia, Dartmouth and Cornell, the Blue leader scored a convincing victory on the same course over which the Intercollegiate run will be held...
...workshop, the device succeeds brilliantly. By the time the children have grown up into Fred MacMurray, Ray Milland and Louise Campbell, the narration of their story seems a tediously oblique fashion of presenting material which would make almost any purely personal romance seem drab by comparison. Net result is proof that the cinema, less complete as an art than aeronautics as a science, has not in its parallel career reached the point of being able to present facts as facts instead of sugar-coating them with fiction...
...stage has become a lecture platform for intellectuals instead of an exciting and thrilling amusement for actors and audience," he said, praising the informal set-up of dramatics at Harvard in comparison with its curricular study at other institutions. Spontaneous productions have more life in them than those which are produced for credit in courses, Hardwicke said he had observed from his own experience...