Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Film itself is taken from a scenario prepared by the Paramount Company's writers and typifies the simple French cinemas of provincial life. It was chosen as a contrast to "Le Million", an urbane and more sophisticated example of screen...
...getting an immense amount of satisfaction out of the kind things said about me . . . because I am singularly able to contrast them with the situation in 1917 and 1918 when almost none was so poor as to do me reverence and I hold that even the wild and lowly flowers of the field* have a right to enjoy a spell of sunshine after they have struggled to lift their heads on cloudy days...
...hecklers enlivened the recent Ford Hall address of Dr. Ernst Jackh on the immediate political destiny of Germany. As soon as Dr. Jackh had finished a discussion of Nietzsche, he was forced to interpret Karl Marx to a questioning audience. The intelligent liberalism of the speaker was in sharp contrast to the inflexible dogmatism of his Communist interlocutors...
...limited resources of the Harvard Debating Council are in striking contrast to the plentiful means of the Oxford equivalent. The physical equipment of the Oxford Union has no counterpart here. The Library of the English society is considerably larger than that in Eliot House. The walls are covered with murals by Rossetti, and other rooms in the spacious buildings are decorated on the same scale...
This indifference is most felt in the larger advanced courses where the professor cannot take the time to check up on the papers. The more elementary courses show a distinct contrast. In fact they may serve as an example. In History 1 all the doubtful papers are reread by a different instructor, and great care is taken that the difference in marking of the section men is compensated...