Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...What surprised me was that of all the thousands of soldiers on the streets hardly any were in the company of Czech girls. To one who has been in touch with the personal and disciplinary problems of our men the contrast is striking. About half of the G.I.s in "our" Czech towns have a babe under at least one arm, and so it has always been in every Allied country...
...street, fun-loving Mexicans greet RendÓn with earnest inquiries about his campaign's progress. The press, which has dubbed him "the picturesque presidential candidate" (in contrast to the Mexican Revolutionary Party's dull favorite, former Interior Minister Miguel Aleman), has gaily promoted his Mexican Rendonian Party (Partido Rendoncista Mexi-cano). Mexico City's weekly picture magazine AS (Ace) ran the campaigning artist on its cover...
Robert H. Matthewson, director of the center, reports that his staff of consultants from other eastern colleges, as well as Harvard, now serve a daily average of 16 veterans seeking vocational and educational advice, in contrast with the two per day average of last March, when the center was first opened...
Harder on the individual student than the Harvard recommendations, the Yale program prescribes nine courses for all men, in contrast to the seven suggested by the Buck Committee. Of the nine, however, only three are specific courses and one a limited choice; the rest offer a broad selection within certain fields. Thus the student finds that under either plan he is forced to take four courses definitely prescribed by the college...
...interesting point in the Yale plan is the number of courses required for a degree--20, in contrast to Harvard's 16. Along with this goes the elimination of any artificial distinction between the A.B. and B.S. degrees, now in effect at Harvard (though ignored by Dean Buck's Committee) because of the perhaps out dated requirement of advanced Latin or Greek for the A.B. degree...