Word: contrasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reputed to possess Broadway's most dazzling legs, will be the first perform from the evening's heterogeneous conglomeration of the theatrical world. The songstress will do several numbers in her well-known "Bicycle Built for Two" style. Later in the evening the Jones Brothers will supply contrast to this gay nineties revival with a jam session for those who like to stomp and shout while they listen...
...from Malvern. He is entirely committed to the Malvern program [TIME, Jan. 20, 1941] and is too big a man to go back on it." William Temple is a determined man, with his mind made up to give the country a powerful democratic and leftist lead, in sharp contrast to the conservatism of his predecessors...
Widener reading room was quiet except for the labored scratching of pens. Vag looked around and yawned. He surveyed the room, which, in contrast with the blue sky and sunlight outside, looked gloomier than ever. Across the table someone was busily taking notes on a big, red book called "The Origin and Evolution of Life." He wondered whether the student would know anything more about Life after reading the book than before. "Probably not," Vag reflected, sadly. He yawned again and looked outside. "Wonder what the Red Sox are doing," he thought, gazing dully at his book...
Thanks for the capital article on Farmer Delair [TIME, March 2]; it can be multiplied many times throughout our land. I keep thinking, however, of the obvious contrast to this fine example-the men (& women too maybe) who wouldn't put in a good day's work without "double time on Sundays and time & a half for Saturdays...
Discussing student opinion at the beginning of the war, Rand emphasized its contrast with the enthusiasm shown by students when we entered the last war in 1917. "At that time," he said, "an undergraduate felt ashamed if he were not connected in some way with the R. O. T. C." In this war, on the other hand, he remarked that it was only the events that followed the defeat of France that shook many students from an isolationist mood...