Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rivalry. The gift that Pérez Jiménez brought was a replica of Simón Bolivar's sword, studded with 860 sapphires-a lavish memento, but also a neat reminder that Peru historically owes its independence to Venezuela's Bolivar. And in any economic comparison, oil-rich Venezuela could lay claim to the more spectacular boom (TIME, Feb. 28). But Peru could also make an impressive boast...
...summary of the quantitative comparison of U.S. and Soviet air power would stress: Russian superiority in current numerical production of military aircraft (though not necessarily in airframe weight); Soviet superiority in numbers of fighter, fighter-interceptor, fighter-bomber and light-bomber types; U.S. superiority in ship-based naval air power (the Russians have none); U.S. superiority in numbers of long-range jet medium bombers (the B-47, of which more than1,000 have been produced); U.S. superiority-or at least approximate equality-in numbers of heavy jet medium bombers (the B-52 type); U.S. superiority in modern troop carriers...
...there except for the formalities of campaign time. He does need a $420 deposit, ten supporters to sign a petition, and the patience to put up with a mixture of restrictions, frugality and party discipline that makes the average U.S. Congressman seem a money-gushing, stenographer-surrounded individualist by comparison...
Because of the present reduction of the department, it is not completely possible to compare it with similar faculties in other institutions, yet the angling of the curriculum and the courses offered do invite such a comparison. If the present offerings are considered as Thompson expresses it, "a basic core curriculum for those wishing to concentrate," this becomes more feasible...
...facility with language and prosody allow him to fit the words and form of the individual poem to its subject in the light in which he sees it, where less gifted or skilled poets would find their expression cramped by a self-imposed strictness in form and diction. A comparison of two passages, one from "First Morning," and the other from "Corrida," shows this flexibility...