Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dodd has testified that there have been as many as 1,5000 Communists teaching in schools and colleges," McCarran stated. "Though this number may not seem large in comparison with the million teachers employed in the schools, the nature of Communist Party operations makes them as dangerous as a lighted match in a powder magazine...
...centuries, Yale and New Haven have periodically come together in gory frays that make their Cambridge counterparts look sickly by comparison. Guns, knives, and an aura of ill-feeling have permeated the town-gown relationship...
...comparison, a rugged 23 per cent of the Yalemen tested showed a "high willingness" to serve in the army...
...Pierre Lorillard V (snuff and tobacco), with the aid of $1,500,000 and 1,800 personally imported Italian laborers, turned 600,000 acres of Ramapo Hills country into a select colony of stately pleasure domes. Once a "must" among top society resorters, it is now, by comparison, a social ghost town...
...critic's duty to live in his own time, rather than in the "closed garden" of isolation from his society; his appreciation of the dangers and possibilities of mass media of communication; and his conviction that the artist "by perceiving what his country is and is not in comparison with other countries . . . can help contribute, in this time of fierce national tensions, to the international understanding without which civilization will not survive...