Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...study of a comparison of entrance grades with subsequent records in Columbia University, initiated 30 years ago, prompted famed Psychologist Edward Lee Thorndike to declare entrance examination estimates of future undergraduate success wrong 47 times out of 50 times. He judged the correlation between real student accomplishment and course ratings 60% as erroneous as if the examination marks had been assigned by lottery...
This rather adverse comparison of the 1760's to our day should not be construed as a complaint against, or a fault of Jaue Austen's novel and its dramatization by Helen Jerome. In the light of its own day it is a very pleasant sentimental comedy, and, after all, we must judge it from that angle. The cast, though not phenomenal by any means, does a definitely satisfactory job. Robert Conness as the beefy-complexioned country gentleman, Mr. Bennet, handles his three twittering daughters and their erratic mother in the masterful fashion of a staid old Englishman. His wife...
...parallel columns 15 nationally known food products against 15 equivalents manufactured by A & P, all sold in A & P stores. The prices in the outside brand column added up to $2.40; those in the A & P products column to $1.70. Though A & P handbills regularly make a tacit comparison between national brands and A & P's, this was the first instance of an explicit price challenge. Investigating the feelings of big food manufacturers, Tide reported that they were in "conniptions...
Skillman's "Squash Racquets" fills a much neglected and scantily treated hole in the squash-player's library. To the beginner there is no comparison in the superiority of his 190-page book over that of Harry Cowles' compressed volume. Skillman proceeds at leisure over the same ground which the "Art of Squash Racquets" tries to cover in 88 pages. He is more precise in his instructions. For example: instead of merely telling the novice always to return to the center of the court, he shows him exactly where his feet should be while waiting at the center...
...ambitious student launched into a technical comparison of some of Einstein's mathematical theories with "Principia Mathematica," a joint work of Alfred N. Whitehead, professor of Philosophy, and Bernard Russell...