Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Most agencies have sloppy or misleading accounting systems, and their accounting methods, even when good, are so diverse as to prevent comparison. It is usually difficult to tell how much money an agency spends just to raise money; some claim it is as little as 5% of the take, most say about 15%, others admit to as high...
...General Patton's remark to Reader Breger (who is himself a cartoonist, creator of the much put-upon "Private Breger") was an apt comparison, even if it was not a sound complaint. Dashing Captain Bruce Bairnsfather went to France in 1914 with Britain's Royal Warwickshire Regiment, saw his cartoons-featuring a character called "Old Bill"-become immensely popular with soldiers and civilians alike. For a Bairnsfather World War I classic, which could have served as a prototype for Mauldin's World War II Willie and Joe cartoons...
...find them similar in subject matter, the pursuance of pleasure, and in color and arrangement. I do not suggest that this comparison is more than a far-fetched coincidence as the action shown in both cases is by no means identical. But one cannot deny that both boil down to the same idea: the important role that pleasure plays in the life...
...have read many issues of two of Canada's leading magazines, and TIME is so far above both that there is no room for comparison...
...Rigney thinks the bats, not the balls, are responsible. "They have a harder finish." says he. "And the light bats have that good whip action." As if to back up Rigney, the Tigers' Cash does his heavy hitting with a 31-oz. bat. lightest on the team. By comparison. Ruth used to tote a 42-oz. shillelagh to the plate...