Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spend funds for nothing. Just why praise from this clump of wives should be the gospel of the casual dustcloth-needing shopper I do not know. Nor do I know why the testimonial of a physicist, even a Nobel Prize physicist, on juridical subjects deserves news column space. The comparison may seem ludicrous, but accepting one is as sensible as accepting the other. Really, the housewives are better qualified to make a pragmatic judgement on household paraphernalia than the physicist a judgement on a legal matter, seeing that the US District Court, the Circuit Court of Appeals...
...Berlin female students in both charm and prodigious note-taking. There is one element, however, of his Berlin life which Gunter misses with an indefineable longing--the student-frequented bars and coffee houses. "I would have to be a poet to describe this difference," he states. "There is no comparison between a German tavern and Cronin...
Despite these gaps, however, Far Eastern studies at Harvard are strong by comparison with most universities, and the skeleton of an extensive research program does exist. Chinese history and Far Eastern languages and anthropology are already well-staffed, and the present East Asia Regional Studies program gives graduate students both an M.A. and a vestible look at the immense problems of the Far East. In addition, Harvard's physical plant is uniquely suited to pursue further research; a special library of over 250,000 volumes is available in the Yenching Institute in Boylston Hall...
Nevertheless, it was a loudly cheered debut. Majestically handsome and graceful, Soprano Tebaldi at first let her voice get hard and edgy in the climaxes. Even so, her phrasing was such a delicate tracery of lovely lights and shades that the other singers sounded colorless by comparison. In the last act, she finally showed why she is compared with such legendary sopranos as Galli-Curci and Claudia Muzio: she sang parts of Willow, Willow, the Ave Maria, and particularly her dying phrases, with ravishing warmth and richness...
From its inception, the Soviet Union has always stressed its industry. It knew that only by increasing its industrial might could it compete with the non-communist powers of the world. Before 1917, Russia was industrially backward by comparison with western nations. But today, the Soviet Union stands as one of the leading heavy industry producers in the world. This change could not have been instituted without extreme pressure being put on all other branches of the economy. It was mainly through a series of five-year plans, begun with a wave of enthusiasm in 1928, that the Russians were...