Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...side show of infantas, royal dwarfs, idiots, buffoons and a little gallery of Velazquez' early, almost photographic genre pictures done in his precourt days when Velazquez used to brag: "I would rather be the first of the vulgar painters than the second of the refined ones." In strong contrast are a number of the passionless religious paintings of which Critic Thomas Craven once said: ". . . the only worthless things he ever...
...Oddly in contrast to all this was the case of the British Empire. The world would never forget the Battle of Britain nor the debt it owed for the lone fight when the battle looked hopeless to the frightened. But the Empire, 55 months a combatant, had lost comparatively...
General Bradley's optimism was in sharp contrast to solemn warnings emanating, all through the winter of 1943-44, from top U.S. and British officials and experts. Notable warnings...
...Overcrowding is almost universal. At Craig Colony for epileptics, crowding is so bad that mattresses are spread on the floor of the Day Room at night. "The contrast between these crowded buildings and the cow barn, where the dairy herd of the institution is kept, is marked...
...progesterone, that it must indeed be a new hormone. The proof was partly chemical: they produced a concentrated ovarian extract from which estrogen and progesterone (which are soluble in alcohol) had been removed; the extract nonetheless had a strong relaxing effect. But the most significant evidence was a contrast in speed between relaxin and progesterone. Relaxin acted within six hours, while progesterone took two to four days to produce the same effect. Estrogen seemed to be needed to help the reaction in both cases. Hisaw's conclusion: relaxin is a separate hormone produced in the female reproductive organs...