Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pursuing three-foot-nine villain Little Billy, galloped off on a black pony, was soon scooting along on a white pony, finished the chase on the black. Trouble with The Terror of Tiny Town, Producer Buell was soon to realize, was that without a few normal-sized folks for contrast, midgets appear much like other people. Next time out, Producer Buell's half-pint stock company will have something to stack up against. They will act out the legend of the mighty lumber man, Paul Bunyan, with a burly upper case actor in the lead...
...picturesque contrast with modern medicine was Hertzler's three-year course at Northwestern. Later he supplemented his education by correspondence courses and two years' study in Germany. His quaintest Americana are his adventures in kitchen surgery. Paying sick calls was no cinch. Horse & buggy covered 20 miles in half a day, while "Pop" shot rabbits and fence posts, read, slept, fought blizzards and dogs that were as bad as the roads. As standard instruments he carried a six-shooter for the dogs, wire cutter, shovel and hammer to cut through fences when he got lost in blizzards...
...contrast to some press writers who have accused me of blaming Depression II on the sunspots, it is refreshing to find your comment [TIME, July 11] that in my book on sunspots I "ventured the opinion that sunspots may affect human psychology, etc." I especially appreciate your italics...
Contrary to your article, Dr. Hutchins selected "Jokake" because it is not what is generally known as a progressive school, but in contrast offers a sound foundation in fundamentals. Also, Frances' enrollment was made a year in advance as part of a sound educational program and was not, as implied in your article, an impulse of the moment...
...attempts of racketeers to get control of it. The best section, telling how dumb Joe Dugan of Kansas City unwittingly beat up a powerful gangster, who thereafter thought the worst mob yet had come to town, is so funny that the rest of the book seems flatter by contrast...