Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Named Claudia Alta Taylor, she was called Lady Bird by a Negro nurse, and Lady Bird she has been ever since. -By comparison, the rigid Republican seniority system has buried such able freshmen as Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper and Thruston Morton, and New York's Jack Javits...
February auto production totaled 393,000 units, the lowest for any February in six years. Production rose slightly last week from its lowest level of the year, but several plants announced layoffs and cutbacks. Not all companies have been equally affected, but a comparison of 1957 and 1958 production between Jan. 1 and Feb. 22 shows a big drop...
...Comparison of the figures bears this out. The first class hike will raise local postage 33 per cent, and out-of-town postage 66 per cent. The second class increase (which will affect the major magazine concerns) will not be that high, and the "junk mail" increase will only amount to 14 per cent of its current insufficient rate. In addition, the Senate has rejected an amendment which would have raised rates for companies using over $1 million of postage annually. This would have more nearly compensated for the strain the big weekly magazines put on the post office...
...criticism intended is not of Music 51 as a course so much as of its position in the concentration program. Members of the department look upon the harmony courses as a necessary evil, comparing them with the equally distasteful elementary science courses. This comparison betrays the inclination so prevalent at Harvard to approach music in a scientific manner. This may be the soundest method in the long view, but pedagogically, it is rather more doubtful. After a year of music study essentially divorced from music itself, the student may become disillusioned with music as a formal study. The technical approach...
...Soviet Encyclopedia, the volume containing the latest box score on Joseph Stalin, was published almost two years behind schedule and in the wake of its 48 companion volumes. Joe's spotty career is now trimmed down to five pages and one picture-a wholesale pruning in comparison with the previous (1947) edition's fat 59 pages and 14 pictures. In the new version, Dictator Stalin made no horrible mistakes until 1934, when "he began to believe in his own infallibility" and grew deaf to his comrades' advice. Among his biggest boners: the purges of the late...