Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...acting of "Angel" is never brilliant, the story is improbable, and the conclusion not wholly convincing; but sheer technique has raised it above the common run. The photography, particularly in the close-ups of Miss Dietrich, the skillful contrast of the gowns she wears as Angel and Maria's tailored English costumes, the detail of the sets, the handling of suspense, the clever way in which the telephone is twice used to advance the plot, scraps of dialogue which show, a little satirically perhaps, the social structure of "this Sacred Plot," these and a score of other subtleties prove...
...through the streets the crowds were held back not by lines of grim-faced troops with fixed bayonets as in Poland, Rumania, Yugoslavia, but by sport-clad sokols, members of Czech gymnastic societies. Foreign correspondents saw in this display a commentary on the democratic beliefs of Czechoslovakia, in sharp contrast to the strong-arm rule evident on the Delbos trip through the Balkans...
...designer and builder of fortifications, roads, and bridges that facilitated the movement of troops, many centuries age, was called a military engineer. By contrast, the designer, and builder of civil works, such as highways, canals, bridges, and buildings to be used in the peaceful development of a country was called a "civil engineer." Although, strictly speaking, all engineers not engaged in military works are civil engineers, the expansion and diversification of engineering associated with the last century have necessarily restricted the application of the term civil engineering to include such activities as the design and construction of public works, large...
...Contrast of the "quiet" dormitories of Harvard with the "madhouses" at Dartmouth is the chief point of difference between the two schools, in the opinion of Dean Chamberlain, assistant dean of freshmen at Hanover...
...contrast to the democratic basis of the Loyalist administration, the rebels draw their support from the army, the organized hierarchy of the Spanish Church, and big industry Feller stated. No actions of the Loyalists justified revolt, accompanied by the wholesale importation of foreign troops and equipment, he said...