Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Upon removal of the observatory, Andrew P. Peabody, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, became the house's occupant. In sharp contrast with the eccentric Peabody was the next Dana House resident, philosopher William James. In 1894, Professor George H. Palmer, noted for his translations of Homer moved in for a long stay that added his name to the building, followed by Richard M. Gummere, present chairman of the Committee on Admission...
...front of his name (Ir. is a contraction of ingenieur, Dutch for engineer). Soekarno's architectural career was as short as his professional title. He designed a few Chinese homes and was commissioned to do a Moslem mosque (most Java mosques are hideous tin-roofed stucco monstrosities, in contrast to the lovely ruins of the vanquished Hindu temples...
...London, Kansas City's Ruth Marshall found one sharp contrast: the fact that English children are more nervous, especially after their naps. She blamed it on the bombings they had been through. Says she: "When some of the children wake up, they have the shakes for a few minutes afterwards. One child walks around like a stiff little old man for a little while...
...contrast to grim, nervous, precise, self-conscious U.S. broadcasts was amazing-and somehow delightful. From the relaxed, indifferent air of audience and performers, it seemed as if a broadcast warm-up was in progress. But the Music Hall was on the air-an hour and a half of singing, acting and comedy, almost completely...
After Lincoln, F.D.R. The U.S. Civil War, in contrast, seemed remote, almost mythical, virtually genteel. But Clifford Dowdey's Experiment in Rebellion, 'Roy Meredith's Mr. Lincoln's Camera Man, Burton J. Hendrick's Lincoln's War Cabinet and a corporal's guard of books dealing with Lincoln himself testified to the apparently fathomless curiosity of the U.S. reader in the events...