Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professional Tool. In contrast to some Nazis who have been addicts of drink, drugs, homosexuality or women, Himmler seems almost normal. He has never paid much visible attention to the neurotic mysticism of Hitler or to the abstruse ideologies of Rosenberg. Unlike the bestial Julius Streicher, he does not appear to delight in brutality for its own sake. He simply uses terror with absolute cold-bloodedness and efficiency as his main professional tool...
...great advantage of the jet engine is its simplicity. In contrast to the conventional reciprocating engine, the Bell P-59 motor has only four basic parts: 1) compressor, 2) combustion chamber, 3) turbine, 4) the cone-shaped jet through which the expanding gases that drive the plane are expelled. Because its operation, like a gun's recoil, is based on Newton's third law of motion (every action has an equal and opposite reaction), engineers prefer to call it the "reaction engine...
...sharp contrast with the total of 14 free throws an official at Brown awarded Bill Jenkins last week, the referees at Cushing called only five fouls on the victors, and but nine against the Crimson. Even Anderson, high scorer for the home team with 12 points, failed to sink a foul shot...
...daughter, Laura, who had died at eight of a bad heart. Laura had been a paragon of beauty and intelligence and, in Mrs. Q's opinion, Catherine resembled her. Result: Catherine, whose intelligence was mediocre, overworked at school to get good marks, and developed imitative heart trouble. In contrast, Mrs. Q considered Agnes "dumb," the symbol of her own failure in life. Result: Agnes stayed timidly at home, rarely spoke up, refused to eat - partly in imitation of her parents' stomach troubles, partly to get attention...
...British and American paintings, hung side by side, made a striking contrast. British portraiture, leaning heavily on plumes, misty laces and shimmering silks, set out to romanticize the subject and present him in a softly flattering light as a person of distinction. The American who sat for his portrait often got a blunt, matter-of-fact estimate of his character from a social equal...