Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loss, to Army, which provides the best measure of comparison between the two teams. Army defeated Brown 42-32 and downed the Crimson 43-32. The one-point difference leads Coach Hal Ulen to believe the match will be one of the closest home meets of the season...
...Your comparison of "wedding-cake modern" skyscrapers to the Babylonian ziggurat [TIME, Jan. 23] is most apt. For the ziggurat was none other than the Tower of Babel, a culture center for men intent on creating a world unified without God. Babylon the Great marches on: "Alas, alas, that great city . . ." (Revelation...
Fifth Grade: comparison of current Hungarian Five-Year Plan with the Soviet plan. Machinations of the Standard Oil Co.'s imperialist saboteurs...
...Inge does not feel that the audience will be able to understand his theme, and therefore he supplies us with this all-enclosing, but unnecessary analogy. Fortunately this comparison is packaged into two short lumps, that of the first scene and one in the last in which she sees that Sheba is dead and her husband Sidney Blackmer (her present life) is taking its place. Because of this condensation however, interest in the play itself is diminished...
Drapes resented any comparison with zoot-suiters. "Everybody knew what zoot-suiters were-draft dodgers, guys that hung around street corners," explained Roy. "But guys that wear pegs nowadays aren't bums. It's just a mode of dress." "Cut out that mode of dress stuff," yelled another. "It's just sharp dressing." The city of Baltimore saw it differently. Said one official, explaining the ban: "Extreme dress leads to poor behavior...