Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ukrainian Nationalist Guards of Carpatho-Ukraine, armed at the last minute by Premier Augustin Volosin, long a Ukrainian nationalist leader, put up a stiff resistance. There was a pitched battle to take Chust, the capital. It took Hungary a full four days to occupy the territory, in contrast to the mere eight or ten hours it took the Germans to seize
...Woolman, he paints behind each a portrait of the author and a landscape of the times. With sweeping strokes he brings to life the intellectual atmosphere in which each of these great masterpieces was produced, showing the essential huntanity of each work as well as its significance. The startling contrast between each of these six documents does not destroy the unity of Dean Sperry's study, but strengthens his basic theme, the persistence of the Christian Ideal in radically different interpretations...
...Wichita, Kans., President Ray Dumont of the National Semi-pro Baseball Congress announced that he planned to dress his umpires next season in stripes. He explained that, since semi-pros wear all sorts of colors, "the striped uniform . . . serves as the best contrast," denied that fans' shouts of "thief" and "robber" had anything to do with the proposed change...
...contrast between the definite unanimity of feeling among the rank and file members in the two groups and the conflict in leadership was emphasized by Nixon...
...contrast with this what have we now? Examine the current January issues of Reader's Digest, TIME, New York Herald Tribune-Paris Edition, The Christian Century, publications which we believe are effective creators of public opinion at home and abroad. Taken together, do they or do they not leave the impression that American journalism-with one or two notable exceptions-has entered a dangerous campaign of hatred...