Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forth criticism and opinion on controversial subjects related to Harvard. But at the same time there are matters which bear exposition and close discussion, matters affecting us closely and personally. There is for example, the question of the dininghall rates and the extent to which they are fair in contrast to club meals and the general profit-making scheme of the college; the problem of the poor boy among the sons of the privileged; the efficacy of the Student Council as an adequate expression of undergraduate ideas. Such specifically are some of the subjects the Critic plans to touch upon...
Green said August and September unemployment figures show a "strong contrast" to the same months last year. In August, 1933, 800,000 went back to work in the President's reemployment program, he pointed out. This year no effort was made to create jobs and unemployment increased...
...college students, with side glances of horror possibly at Huitzilopochtli, the war god . . . is probably one of the most amazing if not amusing spectacles ever presented to American college life. . . But all this is a thing apart from the main satire in which Quetzalcoatl's divine attributes by contrast are used to bolster up a crude pictorial misrepresentation of academic education in America as 'a sterile ritual of dead things giving birth to dead things...
...contrast, the corset business held steadily to $75,000,000 in Rood years and had (TIME...
...America. Although the NAPA had been formed 19 years before, the group of boys who organized the United Amateur Press Association knew nothing of its existence. At that time the National had become a staid and conservative body, with adults, well past the period of youth, predominating. In strict contrast was the United, whose founder, William H. Greenfield, was only 15 years of age at the time. . . . The UAPAA has a much larger membership than the NAPA, and even with dues half as much, they have come through the year with a balance of $50 instead of a deficit...