Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cheat the chair of their client, last week at Trenton Counsel Fisher & associates sought a new trial from the New Jersey Court of Errors & Appeals. Also on hand was Attorney General David T. Wilentz, the man who did more than any other to convict Hauptmann. In marked contrast to the scene at the trial court with its fetid air, crowded benches, hustling newsmen, was the great, placid, colonial chamber of the Court of Errors & Appeals, whose floor is carpeted in rich burgundy red, whose walls are filled with great legal tomes, whose broad windows look out upon the Delaware River...
...excursions and parties and in expecting solicitude when they are ill; but they prefer not to ask advice and to face their troubles alone. They get more opinions from books than from talk. Although generally intolerant, they like people who always agree with them. Divorced Women stand in marked contrast to both happy and unhappy wives. Most surprisingly, they are less mercenary than either-more willing to lend money, less attracted to thrifty people and more to spendthrifts, less impressed by John Wanamaker, more willing to work for fun than for financial gain. They have self-assertiveness, initiative, self-reliance...
...When Nazi newsorgans make their "pure race" point about the French being a "Negroid people" they commonly print a picture of M. Laval whose dead white tie makes his face appear by contrast even swarthier than...
Such a rare and welcome contrast to current attitudes of other college authorities is to be commended. With other college papers and magazines being suspended with much less cause by oversensitive legislators, Harvard at least can say, "We appeal to college men who are expected to be mature enough to think for themselves, requiring university advisors, not mental policemen." Again Harvard shows a clear and sensible attitude, rather than a follow the leader impulse. Brown Daily Herald...
...Museum has had in the last two seasons. The manuscripts in particular are so valuable that, except at the New York Library, they have never been shown before. The twenty-eight books and many separate pages, rich with color and gold, some as old as the ninth century, contrast vividly with the twenty original drawings from Perugino to Watteau. Yet they combine together in presenting an unusual survey of the art of draughtsmanship...