Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contrast with Peter de Paolo, winner of the 1925 race who was offered $100 a minute for a few words over the radio and talked for a full ten, Winner Meyer said: "It was a very nice ride, very nice...
...contrast to the few top positions, there are a great many low-paid positions in almost every Department held by tutors, section men, and lecturers. These men, often of great ability, are for the most part grossly underpaid, getting up to $3000 a year, often less. As evidenced by concentrators in the Economics, English, History, and other Departments, tutors are overworked and this is being, to put it coarsely, taken "out of the hides" of these...
...should be regarded as an expression of the voters' approval of an administrative record that seems to them in contrast to that of the New Deal...
...contrast the Jewish gestures are jerky. Generally the two hands do not move symmetrically. The elbows are almost stationary, close to the body and the movements are made with forearms and fingers. They are emphasized by movements of the head. They are not graphic, but follow lines of thought. . . . Conversation without words is impossible. By contrast with the Italian the Jew tries to get in touch with his friend. The posture is characterized by a slump of the neck and relaxation of the knees...
...Japanese pair receive very little support from the English attache who is infatuated with the exotic beauty of his foreign colleague's wife. In depicting the British simplicity and ingenuousness that is meant to contrast so strongly with the subtle Japanese craftiness, he outdoes himself and becomes mainly stupid. Charles Boyer and Merle Oberon go a long way in making the picture look better than it is, but even they give room for regret, in being manifestly cramped by their unnatural roles...