Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effecting innovations, the committee in Eliot House has hardly made its existence known. It has been negligent in collection of money for the House fund, procuring contributions from some members and not even soliciting other students in the House; in minor matters it has shown little efficiency. The contrast between other of the seven committees is no less striking; one some have been active in organizing discussion and study groups and in planning social functions, while others have given no attention to them...
...contrast to the American Sociological Society, the membership of the Eastern Sociological Conference, which now numbers about 300 prominent sociologists, is restricted to sociologists who have actually made some contribution to social science, or who occupy professional positions in eastern or mid-western universities...
...like a Sunday School charade by comparison. One woman delivers a nine-pound infant, to the evident gratification of her none too virile spouse. An unmarried sinner leaps out of a window when she learns that her seducer has been packed off by his family to South America. In contrast, the independent lady who insists on being called "Miss" has come to the ward to bear eugenic, fatherless progeny. Others are a lady murderess, a psychopath, an Italian woman, a mother of six-blessedly quiet and collected about the whole business-a malingerer who wants the relief of an abortion...
...interest in present-day political affairs. He expressed the belief that this year the economic factor would influence the voters' choice of party but not of candidate and declared that issues were bound to be powerful elements in the selecting of the president for the next four years in contrast to 1928 when they were diverted and buried under a mass of meaningless platitudes...
Three days later the first Sunday Times appeared. More than 410,000 copies of it were sold. In contrast to an early, burlier day, there was no newsstand violence...