Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doctor could be summoned at any time of day or night. Instruments were neatly arranged under glass, ready for immediate use. Perhaps Mr. Robart was comparing these rooms to the torture chambers of a medieval bastille when he made his statement, for it is hard to find a closer comparison for other parts of the prison...
...many months the voices of critics have been hushed almost to silence. Perhaps the explanation may be found in the fact that the critics' favorite instrument of chastisement, a comparison between the wretched conditions prevailing here and the glowing prosperity elsewhere, has not been very easy to discover...
...catch-phrase the moment they heard, two months ago. that Robert Allan Edwards, 21, was accused of bashing his pregnant girl over the head in a lake so he could marry his other girl. That was exactly the plot of Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy. The comparison put last week's trial on the front page of practically every newspaper in the land...
...letters describe the body variously as silver and orange, orchid and light green; its shape is depicted, by comparison, as a mop handle, a boy's kite, a pop bottle, or, most commonly, a sky rocket...
...letters, coming from scattered positions along the coast, notable from Isle au Haute, Me.; Boston Harbor, Nantucket, Nantasket, and Jonesboro, Me.; and towns along the North Shore of Massachusetts supply accurate magnetic compass directions and angles of elevations of the starting and vanishing points of the flight, and a comparison of the size of the body with that of the sun at the time...