Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...place like Harvard, which is old and famous, may appeal to more students than a younger school like Swarthmore," said Saltonstall, "but, the appeal is primarily intellectual." Wood said that a school's fame and prestige, however, is seldom undeserved, though it may sometimes be a false basis of comparison...
...this sacrifice, the H.A.A. should continue its services to these activities, such as scheduling their meets. The physical sports which are still "minor" should in turn raise their letter-awarding requirements to equal the standards of the big sports; they will thus not harm the major sports by comparison...
...much of his life; Dumas was in overpowering good health and spirits all his days. But both men were master storytellers, both made - and lost - fortunes at their trade, both turned out such mountains of work as to make the most diligent modern writers seem sluggards by comparison...
Cordon, a behind-the-scenes politician who hates to make speeches and loathes publicity, was a feeble amateur by comparison. He spent just one 1954 day in Oregon before September, and never succeeded in getting his campaign off the ground...
...published through November of this year, fewer than half will make a profit, i.e., sell 5,000 copies or more in bookstores. This year's fiction bestseller, Morton Thompson's Not As a Stranger, has sold slightly more than 175,000 copies (in comparison, Lillian Smith's Strange Fruit sold 450,000 copies in 1944; Harold Bell Wright's The Eyes of the World sold an advertised 750,000 copies in two months in 1914). This year, probably no more than 25 novels sold 50,000 copies, which means that about 25 fiction writers earned...