Word: comparisons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Continuing along the same lines, Mathias asked the audience to look at the majority party's record in Congress in comparison with campaign promises. He claimed that nothing has been done about the acute unemployment problem, and that Pierre Salinger, the President's press secretary, has become a "thinking man's filter...
...intermediate-yield range." Two days later, the U.S. fired a second shot, also in the "intermediate range." That term meant that the power of both explosions was of more than 20 kilotons, but less than one megaton-insignificant in comparison with Russia's 58-megaton terror blast last year. A low-power test was also held underground in Nevada...
...first postwar Commencement at Harvard. This is the story of his epochal speech. morning ceremonies and awarding the first 11 honoraries, Conant finally reached General Marshall, "an American to whom freedom owes an enduring debt of gratitude, a soldier and statesman whose ability and character brook only one comparison in the history of this nation...
...report to the Faculty on the Program of Advanced Standing, 1955-61, presented March 6 by Edward T. Wilcox, director. The report is accompanied by tables on growth of AP at Harvard; performance of AP students who entered sequent middle-group courses in their first year of residence; comparison of per cent of sophomore-standing students and others in each rank list group; and a list of graduated advanced standing students...
...Duchess of Richmond's celebrated ball for Wellington's officers, on the eve of Waterloo, was a mere fish fry in comparison with the goings-on nowadays at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Jack and Jackie Kennedy's talent for serving up a dazzling concoction of beauty and brains, politics and culture, shamrocks and chandeliers is enough to boggle the most jaded eyes. Last week, at a couple of brilliant levees, the President and his First Lady did it again-and again...