Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Still another new drug, Pyribenzamine, has given similar results. Like Benadryl, it suppresses allergy symptoms by acting against histamine-a substance which is released in the blood stream and causes tissues to break out as rashes or wet noses (or so the latest allergy theory goes). Anthallan, in contrast, behaves more like ephedrine, the well-known drug which gives relief by shrinking the mucous membranes...
Veteran Percy Knauth, long familiar with the vagaries of European politics, was sent to examine the actual Communist Party organization and work habits in a limited sector. Knauth, impressed by the contrast between French Communist methods and those of communists in other countries he has covered, was surprised to find himself treated like a visiting dignitary by the Communist sector leader...
...Almost against his will, Robert keeps kissing a pretty girl (Diana Lynn) and Barbara is not amused. By reaching greedily for both realism and farce, the picture loses at both ends and rapidly falls apart in all directions. The solemn scenes emerge as tiresomely trivial. The comedy scenes, by contrast, are disquieting: they manage to characterize the hero and heroine as fairly unpleasant young people with oddly frivolous notions about earning a living, adultery, practical joking, simple decency and the training of young children...
Many who said this had once damned Franklin Roosevelt every time he did something about anything. The contrast between a strong-willed Roosevelt and an indecisive Truman had set the nation to thinking about the powers of a democratic leader...
Thus the Government Department shows a clear cut advance in popularity compared with the December selections of the class of 1949a, in which it exactly tied with Economics. These results contrast dramatically with the results of the Class of 1948, made on February...