Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...banking moratorium. Nevertheless, for the first time since the New Deal John Businessman last week found his own affairs more engrossing than the Government's. Chairman Myron Taylor of U. S. Steel, having just averted trouble in his own house (see p. 17), told his stockholders that "in contrast with the uncertainties of a year ago, we have every reason to believe we have passed through the most difficult period of our adversities and we now face the future with confidence and assurance." Same day General Motors' Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., who habitually speaks with less reserve than...
...thinks himself a Dickens-lover could read this version without noticing any changes. None of the famed scenes, characters, dialog is missing. In the English edition Graves shows the kind of thing that is missing by printing a chapter of the original at the end of the book. The contrast is all in his favor. Author Graves's reason for rewriting. David Copperfield was not only that Dickens had padded it but that he had falsified some of the implications of his story. Consequently Graves not only subtracted some 250,000 words, cutting the book down to about half...
...Washington dispatches are voluble in their assurance that a firm administration policy will break the deadlock between the collective bargainers and industry. Name of them suggest just what that policy might be. The retreads, for instance, refuse to continue on any terms but then ten per cent reduction of contrast upon which the administration had agreed, while the railroad workers refuse to continue unless this temporary reduction is removed...
...testimony was in sharp contrast to that of Deputy Auditor Thomas Buckley, who was on hand to defend Hurley. To Gill's "hit and run" charge, which came almost at the end of his closing argument, Buckley, stocky, red-faced, jumped up and snarled, "Mr. Hurley has been an elected officer of the Common-wealth for the past four years. He never offered charges he could not substantiate. He left town, not because he was a hit and run driver, but because he was ordered away (much laughter) to recover from the strain of three months delving into the frightful...
Delta Upsilon has this year chosen "The Contrast" by Royall Tyler '76 for its annual theatrical production. The play will be presented in the Chapter House at 396 Harvard Street on March 15, 16, and 17. "The Contrast" is generally referred to as the first American play, since it was the first play to gain anything more than local popularity...