Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have received . . ."; 3) ignoring France's objections to German rearmament: "Although we have no hatred for those who made us suffer so much, and we desire to forget their cruelties if they agree not to forget them, certain apologies for their discipline and their will to power, in comparison with an alleged carelessness on the French side, hurt us profoundly. It is as if the aggressor merited more encouragement than the victim...
With this sort of a comparison, scores of 14 to 7, 13 to 0, and 13 to 7 against these opponents are not all impressive...
...thousands of trees now growing are even-aged because they came from the same lot. Merrill hopes comparison of the rate of growth may give some indications of the best clime...
...believes the growth in the American population, rather than interest in any one party, has upped registration. With millions more citizens, we were bound to get new voters, he said, but cautioned that "a comparison of caucus figures is necessary to get the real impact of the population increase...
Over & over again the story was repeated at the whistle stops: a popular turnout that defied comparison-even for memories that stretched all the way back to William Jennings Bryan. Democratic Baltimore, which had just barely mustered a welcome for Adlai Stevenson earlier in the week, turned out 100,000 strong to line the streets for Eisenhower. After dinner at the Lord Baltimore Hotel, Ike drove through more crowds to the packed Fifth Regiment Armory to deliver a speech on armed forces policy. Considering how much Eisenhower knows about this subject, the speech was disappointing to his friends-although...