Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the responsibility for the destinies of our peoples, you know that to give up the enterprise of disarmament and the organization of peace, would not mean an end to your troubles. You know that if we closed down tomorrow you would all go home to face difficulties in comparison with which the troubles with which you are now wrestling would seem insignificant...
...suppose that President Roosevelt, not that I make any comparison, looked like Mr. Feuchtwanger, would you describe him as looking like a "fat-cheeked rat," or if your editor . . . looked like Mr. Feuchtwanger, would you "describe him as looking like a "fat-cheeked rodent...
Lithographs by Charlet and his pupil Raffet, echoed by wood-engravings of these masters, show the Napoleonic Legend. The comparison is instructive; the visitor directing his glance from a page of Nodier's "Portes de Fer" to a lithograph of the Napoleonic army is readily convinced of the small interest the Romantic artist took in the means of art. Much more important was the final effect...
...apparent from the row of prints placed above the case. The magnificent "Rue Transonian" is flanked by the "Souvenir de Saint-Pelagic," the prison where Daumier was confined for his political caricatures. This impression, one of seven known proofs, is also tent by Mr. Allen. Finally, an interesting comparison of Daumier and Gavarni is afforded by the juxtaposition of similar compositions. In this way the visitor is shown in dramatic fashion the similarities and the characteristics of the two leading journalistic artists; the general point of view of the period and the specific vision of the artist...
...Church of England Assembly, Sir Charles is a hearty believer in the Holy Bible. Since 1925 he has spent a fortune on archaeological expeditions in Palestine, Mesopotamia, Egypt and Syria, to bolster up Biblical lore which in the past 150 years has been assailed by "Higher Criticism"-comparison of ancient texts and detective work on internal evidence. Last month Sir Charles published an account of his work: New Bible Evidence.* The potsherds, cuneiform tablets, scarabs, bricks, cartouches, scraps of foodstuffs and cloth brought to light by his diggers convinced him that...