Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Armyists tramp lustily through the streets, Hindus is forced to contrast their robust health, good, clean uniforms, and strong shoes with the dark, patched garb of the proletariat. However, though trying his best to achieve impartiality, the author cannot avoid partisanship any more than all the other commentators who have flooded Russia and regurgitated their findings to us. Throughout the book Hindus impresses upon the reader his own firm conviction that despite all difficulties and whatever the cost, the Revolution will sweep on, brushing from its path all impediments, crushing all opposition. "The Great Offensive" will continue, for the idea...
...contrast to the showing of the forward line, which includes three veterans, the halfbacks, all new men on the Varsity, are proving excellent. Frank W. Vincent, Jr. '36 and John Dorman '36 are extremely self-possessed and agile in their handling of the ball...
...series of public lectures on Oriental art, Laurence Binyon, eighth holder of the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship in Poetry, will contrast the western point of view of art with that held by the Chinese; and will trace the currents of thought and art between the East and the West...
...Women lightened. Cried Dr. Haggard, who has lived in Nashville, Tenn. most of his 61 years:* "The Apollo Belvedere,'with its magnificent forehead calm as Heaven, rises above eyes that follow the shaft he has sped. 'And the cold marble leaped to life a god.' Contrast the Belvedere with the Venus de Milo, the very eidolon of the female form, the Queen of the Loves; the head too small for great intellect but big enough for the greatest love. . . . "Surgery has created its greatest endeavors for woman-the Caesarean section for her unbornable child. McDowell invoked...
...striking contrast were Kate Smith, Washington, D. C.'s tremendous contribution to radio, and that other Washington musician, small, blue-eyed William Hartman Woodin, Secretary of the Treasury. Young William Curtis Bok, who presided at the speakers' table, .asked Maestro Stokowski and his men to play Mr. Woodin's Covered Wagon suite. The Secretary of the Treasury beamed modestly throughout the performance, then made a little speech: "When I heard my poor music so wonderfully played by Prince Stokowski and his men, I thought, 'There is music in the Treasury and, I hope, harmony...