Word: contrast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That's $120 a month for three rooms in a tax-free building. Recently you raised my four and one half room (including modern kitchen) apartment from $100 to $115 and I complained. In the light of conditions at Harvard I now see how well off I am in contrast to the students (even if they do get a view of the Charles) at our leading educational institution; so in appreciation please accept these roses." John J. Murphy, Brookline...
Party offers Britons "the opportunity to share in a great common purpose, sought with a sense of universal comradeship, in contrast with the Conservative aim of competitive striving for personal gain...
Exactly the opposite is true of George Bluestone's "The Funeral." Here we have a deal of skimble-skamble stuff poured out with absolutely no result. The simplest thing to be said about its author is that he has no talent. The contrast between the two stories is the contrast between Mr. Fodor's realism and Mr. Bluestone's realisticness. Thus in the latter we have an endless cast of characters who speak in a hodgepodge of scrupulously correct and scrupulously incorrect English which is characterized as "Jewish." These characters collect together at the funeral of an old lady...
...proposal to abolish 'the death penalty for shoplifting of articles worth five shillings or more, Lord Ellenborough had solemnly objected: "I trust your lordships will pause before you assent to an experiment pregnant with danger to the security of property . . . Repeal this law and see the contrast-no man can trust himself for an hour out of doors without the most alarming apprehensions that on his return every vestige of his property will be swept off by the hardened robber...
...Cream-Puff Contrast. How was the battle of Italy going? A TIME correspondent cabled some impressions...