Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contemporaries reveals a tendency to ease up on the usual old requirement that a chaperon be present whenever young ladies enter the dormitories. At Yale, for example, two students need no chaperon to obtain permission to receive a girl in a dormitory room in the afternoon. Such parietal rules contrast strikingly with those at Harvard where a student may not so much as show his rooms to his sister unless she is attended by an elderly or married woman...
...seventy-five years the movement has been gathering headway. A state will adopt prohibition and then find that it does not work so well as was expected. The resulting disappointment gives the liquor forces their opportunity. The prohibitory law is repealed, but it does not stay repealed. The contrast is convincing. The state generally finds that even though prohibition did not work so well as was expected, it worked better than anything else that the state tried. Some states have enacted, repealed and re-enacted, more than once. In the end the state stays dry. That, in a nutshell...
...close coordination between instruction in the history of art and the exhibits in its galleries. In this respect it differs from most college museums, which are apt to be nothing but repositories for all material accumulated by gifts or haphazard purchase regardless of its illustrative value. In marked contrast to the heterogeneous mixtures of good, bad, and indifferent creations of past ages usually seen in such exhibits, there is a definite purpose behind every object in the Fogg galleries. Discrimination as to artistic merits and historic importance is shown in the selection of all objects for public display...
...from where, if the day be clear, the passenger can see the lowest and highest points in the U. S.; Death Valley ( - 276 ft.) and Mt. Whitney (14,502 ft.). The desolate Mojave Desert is a runway to the last hurdle, the San Bernardino range, and another study in contrast as the plane "coasts" down the heavily wooded slope, orange groves reaching to the foothills, and again a close-lined population checkerboard. In the distance-it is now dusk -are the lights of Los Angeles and the welcoming beam of Alhambra Airport...
...contrast between the Frumkin homelife and the Franklin bullfights and ballyhoo inspired two Manhattan colyum-ists to comment. Heywood Broun of the Telegram wrote: "Suppose you were one of Sidney's relatives. What would you suggest [for his entertainment]? I will endeavor to enter into the fantasy myself...