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Word: contrasted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...local trend, in contrast to a slight decline in sales reported in New York during the past few days, has been a continued increase in the volume of purchases...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Costs Won't Cut College's Coffee | 12/20/1949 | See Source »

...commonplace. Intruder is an honest attempt to picture the South as it actually is, but Brown's efforts to underplay the sensational and the macabre material lead to an impression of stiffness. The menacing events are pictured with such a reaching for poetic blandness that, by contrast, an energetic shot of the sheriff whipping up some scrambled eggs becomes a hardhitting, action-filled image...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Navy's ball handling was fishy and competent. In contrast to Shepard's double pivot attack, Coach Ben Carmevale pan his team from 8 fast arias cross well out from the basket, taking advant age of both the spend and shooting of his captain, Dave Mullaney. Mullaney, who played for Holy Cross in an NCAA tournament two years age, was all over the court, leading Navy's scoring with 24 points...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: Navy Staves Off Late Rally, Edges Five, 70-68, at Garden | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...suave photomurals and green fluorescentlit interior of Phillips' Book Store's new establishment which opened this week would make strange contrast with the store John Phillips started in 1914. He began with one shelf of second-hand books-in someone else's jewelry store...

Author: By Maxwell E. Foster jr., | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 12/10/1949 | See Source »

...contrast with his first lecture, in which he stressed the problem of an American depression as being more serious than the threat of a Russian attack, the Republican junior senator from Vermont emphasized the atom bomb as a preserver of peace, although he insisted that it should not be used "against conquered and enslaved populations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flanders Asks U.S. to Speak Out on Bomb | 12/9/1949 | See Source »

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