Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctors agreed. Their report: "The President has made an excellent recovery from the operation for acute intestinal obstruction due to an old 'burntout' ileitis . . . The heart is not enlarged . . . The size of the heart's shadow [is] unchanged in comparison with the films made during the past ten years . . . The electrocardiogram shows the same residual changes of a well-healed heart-muscle scar which have been present since recovery from the attack last year." Ike's weight, 163 when he checked out of Walter Reed last June...
This year's gubernatorial contest conforms to the Massachusetts norm, but Foster Furcolo emerges as a better risk than his Republican opponent Sumner G. Whittier. Furcolo's program, while not remarkable, is generally constructive by comparison with that of his Republican rival. He promises to use his experience in Federal government to obtain a "fair share" of grant-in-aid funds for highways and schools in a state that is traditionally short-changed in government spending. Furcolo has also proposed the establishment of a network of regional colleges, a state scholarship program, a new medical and dental college, increased...
...increasing fear of the devastation which could result from an atomic war or the hazards introduced by testing programs. America is in a position to take the first step away from this age of uneasiness. Considerations arising from fear, which appear to hinder the United States, are trivial in comparison with the contribution which this country can and should make towards a peaceful world...
Numerous expedients, providing an interesting comparison with today's high-powered fund drives, were used to raise money. Harvard had no endowment at the time, but the General Court of Massachusetts granted the revenues of the Boston-Charlestown ferry to the College. This amounted to about 30 pounds a year, mostly in fake wampum. More money came from gifts and, sometimes, from community subscriptions. But the chief source of revenue was the plain generosity of the people of New England. From 1644 to 1652 enough families contributed a peck of wheat or a shilling of money to support the entire...
Producer-Director Wyler had good reason to draw a comparison. Rummaging through his musty attic of past hits (Mrs. Miniver, The Best Years of Our Lives, Roman Holiday), he came across Somerset Maugham's durable old (1927) melodrama, The Letter, and last week dusted it off for the 21-inch screen. It was Wyler's first stab at TV, and the result was a slick, highly polished teledrama about a bored wife who riddles her lover with bullets and gets away with...